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How to Combine Rhetoric and Realism in the Methodology of Economics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2008

Uskali Mäki
Uskali Mäki
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University of Helsinki
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Economics & Philosophy , Volume 4 , Issue 1 , April 1988 , pp. 89 - 109
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988

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