Fact and Fiction in Economics: Models, Realism and Social Construction

By Uskali Mäki. 2003

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• What is neoclassical economics? The three axioms responsible for its theoretical oeuvre, practical irrelevance and, thus, discursive power (2006, unknown): “We think our definition of neoclassical economics is important because critics are often caught off-guard by sophisticated neoclassicists (see Dasgupta, 2002) who take advantage of gaps in existing definitions in order to turn criticisms on their head.”
• The explanation paradox (2012, background): “…about how models explain in ways different from the usual causal and unificationist paradigms is a way forward.9 But before such a new way of thinking about explanation is forthcoming and shown to fit contemporary economic modelling, the rational response to the paradox is to remain baffled.”