Reply to Julian Reiss

Journal of Economic Methodology 20 (3):244 - 249 (2013)
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Julian Reiss finds an insoluble paradox in the claims that economic models are at the same time false, nevertheless explanatory, and that only true explanations explain. But the claim that they are false is itself false. A closer look at what ?truth? may mean is needed

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10.1080/1350178x.2013.828870

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