False Models as Explanatory Engines
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False Models as Explanatory Engines
Many models in economics are very unrealistic. At the same time, economists put a lot of effort in making their models more realistic. I argue that in many cases, including the Modigliani-Miller irrelevance theorem investigated in this paper, the purpose of this process of concretization is explanatory. When evaluated in combination with their assumptions, a highly unrealistic model may well be...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Philosophy of the Social Sciences
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0048-3931,1552-7441
DOI: 10.1177/0048393108319414