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January 1, 2024
The last 30 years have seen an increase in alternative approaches to economic modeling inspired by analogies with statistical mechanics and other areas of physics. Work in this tradition has come to be known as econophysics. Despite the apparent empirical ...
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January 1, 2021
In this chapter, we consider how practicing economists go about the task of constructing explanations about the actual world by using models. After considering some notable positions in the literature in philosophy of science, we draw attention to features ...
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