Verisimilitude and the scientific strategy of economic theory

Journal of Economic Methodology

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 331-350

  Zamora Bonilla, Jesús P ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Economic methodology; Economics of science; Instrumentalism; Realism; Rhetoric; Verisimilitude

Indexed keywords

EID: 26444564924     PISSN: 1350178X     EISSN: 14699427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13501789900000022     Document Type: Article

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