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Title of Journal: Metascience
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Springer Netherlands
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Authors: Harold Kincaid
Publish Date: 2016/10/06
Volume: 26, Issue: 1, Pages: 67-70
Abstract
I am becoming more and more convinced that economics is full of interesting philosophy of science problems but also that those problems are tough nuts to crack with standard philosophy of science approaches Standard realist and antirealist arguments do not really fit because wellsupported theories that are overturned by later better supported theories are nearly nonexistent So nomiracles arguments or pessimistic inductions get little purchase Kincaid forthcoming Instead it is a field with a plethora of generally highly mathematical models and an elaborate set of statistical tools Perhaps economics is much like ecology except that the mathematics are much more elaborate as are the stats and social political and moral values are close to the surface everywhere
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