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It's just a feeling: why economic models do not explain

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  • Anna Alexandrova
  • Robert Northcott

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Julian Reiss correctly identified a trilemma about economic models: we cannot maintain that they are false, but nevertheless explain and that only true accounts explain. In this reply we give reasons to reject the second premise -- that economic models explain. Intuitions to the contrary should be distrusted.

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  • Anna Alexandrova & Robert Northcott, 2013. "It's just a feeling: why economic models do not explain," Journal of Economic Methodology, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 20(3), pages 262-267, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jecmet:v:20:y:2013:i:3:p:262-267
    DOI: 10.1080/1350178X.2013.828873
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    1. Michael Joffe, 2017. "Causal theories, models and evidence in economics—some reflections from the natural sciences," Cogent Economics & Finance, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 5(1), pages 1280983-128, January.
    2. Harald Ulrik Sverdrup & Anna Hulda Olafsdottir, 2020. "Conceptualization and parameterization of the market price mechanism in the WORLD6 model for metals, materials, and fossil fuels," Mineral Economics, Springer;Raw Materials Group (RMG);Luleå University of Technology, vol. 33(3), pages 285-310, October.

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