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The problem of future knowledge
Rescher, Nicholas - In: Mind and Society: Cognitive Studies in Economics and … 11 (2012) 2, pp. 149-163
The paper argues that future knowledge will in substantial measure be inscrutable for us today, with the principal exception of facts about the past. The paper considers the reasons for this circumstance and examines its wider implications for the condition of human knowledge. Copyright...
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Friedman’s Methodology: A Puzzle and A Proposal for Generating Useful Debates through Causal Comparisons (with a postscript on positive vs. normative theories)
Khan, Haider - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Milton Friedman’s “The Methodology of Positive Economies” is still one of the most widely read pieces on economic methodology. One reason for this might be Friedman’s attractive proposal that economists use theories and hypotheses as pragmatic devices to summarize data and make...
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The philosophy of science foundations of marketing research : for scientific realism and the inductive realist models of theory status and generation
Hunt, Shelby D. - In: Journal of global scholars of marketing science : … 28 (2018) 1, pp. 1-32
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Scientific realism as a challenge to economics (and vice versa)
Maki, Uskali - In: Journal of Economic Methodology 18 (2011) 1, pp. 1-12
The implications of scientific realism in regard to economics depend on what one takes scientific realism to mean and … on whether one lets its contents to depend on the peculiar characteristics of the discipline of economics. Here a … success. To accommodate economics, realism has to allow for ideas such as constitutive science-independence, commonsensibles …
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Hidden Markov model for stock selection
Nguyen, Nguyet; Nguyen, Dung - In: Risks 3 (2015) 4, pp. 455-473
The hidden Markov model (HMM) is typically used to predict the hidden regimes of observation data. Therefore, this model finds applications in many different areas, such as speech recognition systems, computational molecular biology and financial market predictions. In this paper, we use HMM for...
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Lesser degrees of explanation : further implications of F. A. Hayek's methodology of sciences of complex phenomena
Scheall, Scott - In: Erasmus journal for philosophy and economics : EJPE 8 (2015) 1, pp. 42-60
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Mathematical modelling in the wake of the crisis : a blessing or a curse? ; what does the economics profession say?
Bigo, Vinca; Negru, Ioana - In: Cambridge journal of economics 38 (2014) 2, pp. 329-347
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Hidden Markov model for stock selection
Nguyen, Nguyet; Nguyen, Dung - In: Risks : open access journal 3 (2015) 4, pp. 455-473
The hidden Markov model (HMM) is typically used to predict the hidden regimes of observation data. Therefore, this model finds applications in many different areas, such as speech recognition systems, computational molecular biology and financial market predictions. In this paper, we use HMM for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011402656
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Prediction versus accommodation in economics
Northcott, Robert - In: Journal of economic methodology 26 (2019) 1, pp. 59-69
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Engineering, economics, Heidegger ... and Mariotti : a note
Fforde, Adam - In: Journal of industrial and business economics 48 (2021) 4, pp. 589-600
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