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Causal Structure and Hierarchies of Model
Hoover, Kevin D. - Duke University, Department of Economics - 2011
Economics places a high premium on completeness of explanation. Typical general-equilibrium accounts of economic …, there are countervailing practices in economics. Representative-agent models aim to capture economic motivation but not to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009145718
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Pragmatism, Perspectival Realism, and Econometrics
Hoover, Kevin D. - Duke University, Department of Economics - 2010
Econometricians tend to hold simultaneously two views in tension with each other: an apparent anti-realism that holds that all models are false and at best useful constructs or approximations to true models and an apparent realism that models are to be judged by their success at capturing an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009145720
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On the Reception of Haavelmo’s Econometric Thought
Hoover, Kevin D. - Center for the History of Political Economy - 2012
techniques and a close reading of econometrics articles and textbooks to trace the way in which the economics profession received …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010878271
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On the Reception of Haavelmo's Econometric Thought
Hoover, Kevin D. - 2012
techniques and a close reading of econometrics articles and textbooks to trace the way in which the economics profession received …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011592193
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The Crisis in Economic Theory: A Review Essay
Hoover, Kevin D. - 2015
role of theory in economics and in recent economic events is considered in light of two recen t books: the sociologist … Economics. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011592249
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Situational Analysis
Hoover, Kevin D. - 2016
social science of the prototypical reasoning of economics. Applied to history, situational analysis is largely an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011592251
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A countercultural methodology: Caldwell's 'Beyond Positivism' at thirty-five
Hoover, Kevin D. - 2017
economics into a distinct subfield within economics. Reconsidering it after thirty-five years, it is striking for its anti …-naturalism (i.e., its lack of deference to the actual practices of economics) or, perhaps, for its meta-naturalism (displayed in its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011761429
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Models, truth, and analytic inference in economics
Hoover, Kevin D. - 2019
in economics is illustrated with a historical case-study of Lawrence Klein's early econometric models of the U.S. economy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011951718
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The crisis in economic theory : a review essay
Hoover, Kevin D. - 2015
role of theory in economics and in recent economic events is considered in light of two recen t books: the sociologist … Economics. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600520
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Reductionism in economics : causality and intentionality in the microfoundations of macroeconomics
Hoover, Kevin D. - 2014 - revised 7 February 2014
economics - the so-called microfoundations of macroeconomics - is adequately to ground or replace higher level causal analysis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011706671