Critical realism and formal modelling: Incompatible bedfellows?

Applied Economics and the Critical Realist Critique

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 71-88

  Setterfield, Mark ^a  

^a Trinity College   (United States)

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EID: 19844370449     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203987872     Document Type: Chapter

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