Response to Henschen: causal pluralism in macroeconomics

Journal of Economic Methodology 27 (2):164-178 (2019)
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In his recent paper in the Journal of Economic Methodology, Tobias Henschen puts forth a manipulationist definition of macroeconomic causality that strives for adequacy. As the notion of ‘adequacy’...

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