Believable world of economic models

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Published: 2019-11-18
DOI: https://doi.org/10.59203/zfn.67.488
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economic models, philosophy of economics

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Marcin Gorazda
Copernicus Center for Interdisciplinary Studies

Abstract

Book review: Łukasz Hardt, Economics Without Laws. Towards a New Philosophy of Economics, Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 2017, pp. 220.

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No. 67 (2019): Special issue: philosophy of economics

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Book reviews

How to Cite

Gorazda, Marcin. 2019. “Believable World of Economic Models”. Philosophical Problems in Science (Zagadnienia Filozoficzne W Nauce), no. 67 (November): 251-61. https://doi.org/10.59203/zfn.67.488.

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