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- Assumptions controversy
- Cairnes, J. E.
- Induction
- Instrumentalism
- Methodology of economics
- Mill, J. S.
- New Deal
- Operationalism
- Perfect competition
- Robbins, L. C.
- Senior, N. W.
- Testing
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Boland, L.A. (2018). Assumptions Controversy. In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_2601
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