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Published in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics • Jan 1, 2018
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Authors:
Mary S. Morgan

Abstract

Philosophical analysis of the historical development of modelling, as well as the programmatic statements of the founders of modelling, support three different functions for modelling: for fitting theories to the world; for theorizing; and as instruments of investigation. Rather than versions of dat...

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