Tool-box or toy-box? Hard obscurantism in economic modeling

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• Publication year

  2016

• Venue

  Synthese

• Publication date

  2016-07-01

• Fields of study

  Philosophy, Computer Science, Economics, Political Science

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  DOI 10.1007/s11229-015-0836-8
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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