A review on Katzner’s Models, mathematics and methodology in economic explanation, Cambridge University Press 2018

ABSTRACT

A review of Donald Katzner's book on economic modelling is provided. In addition to characterising the book, I give critical comments on the distinction between primary and secondary assumptions.

KEYWORDS:

• Modelling
• explanation
• secondary and primary assumptions
• implicit assumptions

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Aki Lehtinen

Aki Lehtinen is a professor of philosophy at Nankai University, Tianjin, China. He has published on various topics in philosophy of economics, social choice theory, and modelling. His most recent work is on generalisation in modelling, macroeconomic methodology, computer simulations and simulated data and philosophy of meta-analysis.