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Marshall, who plays an outsized role in Friedman’s self-conception of economics and economic theory. I also show that Stigler …

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The Study of Co-Operatives in Modern Economics : A Methodological Essay

Kalmi, Panu - 2004

is exemplified by Jaroslav Vanek's (1970) The General Theory of Labor-Managed Market Economies, and the latter approach …

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Economic Models in the Courtroom : A Methodological Approach

Peruzzi, Edoardo - 2022

When it comes to finding whether a firm has violated antitrust law, economists are often called upon as expert witnesses by the parties involved in litigation. This paper focuses on a challenge that economists may face when appearing as expert witnesses in US federal courts, namely to comply...

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Social Pressure Explains Ethical Voting : A Methodological Contribution to the Scientific Endeavor in the Social Sciences

Jimenez-Gomez, David - 2019

Models of ethical voting, in which individuals derive intrinsic utility from “doing their part” by voting in elections, have been proposed as an explanation for the “voting paradox” (why people vote if the probability of being pivotal is negligible). I show that the set of equilibria of...

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McCarthyism and the Mathematization of Economics

Weintraub, E. Roy - 2016

Historians of the social sciences and historians of economics have come to agree that, in the United States, the 1940s transformation of economics from political economy to economic science was associated with economists' engagements with other disciplines — e.g. mathematics, statistics,...

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The Spontaneous Order of Words : Economics Experiments in Haiku and Renga

Ziliak, Stephen - 2014

The search is on for low cost collaborative learning models that foster creative cooperation and growth through spontaneous competition. I propose that a traditional renga competition for stakes can fulfill several of those goals at once. “Capitalistic Crisis,” composed by five undergraduate...

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Economic Methodology : A Bibliometric Perspective

Truc, Alexandre; Claveau, François; Santerre, Olivier - 2021

three dimensions (corresponding to action theory, ethics and philosophy of science) and that (2) the interest for general …

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Evidence-based scientific policy advice

Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2014

While policy measures affect the welfare of nations, the practice of policy advice is determined by complex rules. Evidence-based scientific policy advice gives weight to hard empirical facts and restrictions. The lecture discusses challenges and conditions for success and provides suggestions...

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Evidence-based scientific policy advice

Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2014

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The pre-eminence of theory versus the European CVAR perspective in macroeconometric modeling

Spanos, Aris - 2009

the 'theory first' versus the 'data first' perspectives in the context of a broader methodological framework with a view … of economic theories. -- Econometric methodology ; 'general-to-specific' ; pre-eminence of theory ; cointegrated VAR … ; statistical adequacy ; realisticness of a theory ; statistical model ; actual versus nominal error probabilities …

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