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It’s Just A Feeling: Why Economic Models Do Not Explain
Journal of Economic Methodology 20 (3):262 - 267 (2013)
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Julian Reiss correctly identified a trilemma about economic models: we cannot maintain that they are false, but nevertheless explain and that only true accounts explain. In this reply we give reasons to reject the second premise ? that economic models explain. Intuitions to the contrary should be distrustedAuthor Profiles
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