What's the Point of Ceteris Paribus? or, How to Understand Supply and Demand Curves.
Philosophers sometimes claim that economics, and the idealizing strategies it employs, is ultimately unable to provide genuine laws of nature. Therefore, unlike physics, it does not qualify as an actual science. Careful consideration of thermodynamics, a well-developed physical theory, reveals subst...
| Publicado en: | Philosophy of Science Vol. 85; no. 2; pp. 271 - 293 |
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