Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/189468 
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Year of Publication: 
1997
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Working Paper No. 97-28
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University of California, Department of Economics, Davis, CA
Abstract: 
Starting with a realist ontology the economic methodologist, Tony Lawson, argues that econometrics is a failed project. Apparently more sympathetic to econometrics, the philosopher of science, Nancy Cartwright, again from a realist perspective, nonetheless argues for conditions of applicability that are so stringent that she must seriously doubt the usefulness of econometrics. In this paper, I reconsider Lawson''s and Cartwright''s analyses and argue that realism supports rather than undermines econometrics properly interpreted and executed.
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Working Paper

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