Subramanian, S. - In: Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology 47 (2013) 1, pp. 577-580
‘Instrumentalist’ interpretations of economic theories have been held to provide justification for the rightness of … note asserts, with the help of a very simple example, that theories based on unrealistic assumptions are—precisely contrary … to its claim—inimical to the interests of an instrumentalist view of theories. Tests of predictive accuracy can be narrow …