When Analytic Narratives Explain.
Rational choice modeling originating in economics is sweeping across many areas of social science. This paper examines a popular methodological proposal for integrating formal models from game theory with more traditional narrative explanations of historical phenomena, known as “analytic narratives”...
| Publicado en: | Journal of the Philosophy of History Vol. 3; no. 1; pp. 1 - 25 |
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Brill Academic Publishers
Jan2009
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