Model diversity and the embarrassment of riches

In a recent special issue dedicated to the work of Dani Rodrik, Grüne-Yanoff and Marchionni [(2018). Modeling model selection in pluralism. Journal Economic Methodology, 25(3), 265–275. https://doi.org/10.1080/1350178X.2018.1488572] raise potentially damning problem for Rodrik's suggestion that progress economics should be understood measured laterally, by continuous expansion new models. They argue this could lead an ‘embarrassment riches’, i.e. rapid our library such extent we become unable choose between available models, thus needs solved make ‘model pluralism’ viable. Drawing on Veit’s [(2019a). Model Philosophy Social Sciences, 50(2), 91–114. https://doi.org/10.1177/0048393119894897] account, paper argues pluralism as thesis about relationship science nature undermines very idea general framework policy making.