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The Future of Mathematics in Economics: a Philosophically Grounded Proposal
(The Future of Mathematics in Economics: a Philosophically Grounded Proposal - Fundations of Science, 2016)
The use of mathematics in economics has been widely discussed. The philosophical
discussion on what mathematics is remains unsettled on why it can be applied to
the study of the real world. We propose to get back to some ...
Abduction in Economics: a Conceptual Framework and its Model
(Synthese:December 2013, Volume 190, Issue 18, pp 4215-4237, 2013)
We discuss in this paper the scope of abduction in Economics. The
literature on this type of inference shows that it can be interpreted in di erent
ways, according to the role and nature of its outcome. We present a ...
Abducing the Crisis
(In L. Magnani, W. Carnielli and C. Pizzi (eds.), Model Based Reasoning in Science and Technology: Abduction, Logic and Computational Discovery, Studies in Computational Intelligence Series, Vol. 314. Springer Verlag: 179-198., 2010)
Macroeconomic crises are events marked by “broken promises”
that shatter the expectations that many agents had entertained about their
economic prospects and wealth positions. Crises lead to reappraisals of the
views ...