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Political economy, experimental or abstract and deductive science?
[L’économie politique, science expérimentale ou science abstraite et déductive ?]

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  • Guy Bensimon

    (IEPG - Sciences Po Grenoble - Institut d'études politiques de Grenoble)

Abstract

Pierre Cahuc and André Zylberberg raise the problem of the scientific status and the method of economics: for these authors economic science has become an experimental science searching cause and effect relationships econometrically tested. We support, on the contrary, that, logically, economics can be only deductive science; about looking for cause and effect relationships, not only it does not characterize science in general, but furthermore it is inadequate in terms of knowledge of social objects.

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  • Guy Bensimon, 2017. "Political economy, experimental or abstract and deductive science? [L’économie politique, science expérimentale ou science abstraite et déductive ?]," Post-Print hal-01677458, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-01677458
    DOI: 10.15122/isbn.978-2-406-06967-6.p.0267
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