Retroduction as mixed-methods triangulation in economic research: Reorienting economics into social science

Cambridge Journal of Economics

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 77-99

  Downward, Paul ^a   Mearman, Andrew ^b  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Economics; Interdisciplinary; Retroduction; Social Science; Triangulation

Indexed keywords

ECONOMICS; TRIANGULATION;

EID: 33846551669     PISSN: 0309166X     EISSN: 14643545     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cje/bel009     Document Type: Article

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