EPUB and EPDF available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. With contributions from Alan Kirman and Rod O'Donnell, Karl Mittermaier's posthumously published work establishes a conceptual framework that will help economic theorists explore new paths of empirical analysis.

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