Tool-box or toy-box? Hard obscurantism in economic modeling

• Autores: Jon Elster
• Localización: Synthese, ISSN-e 1573-0964, Vol. 193, Nº. 7, 2016, págs. 2159-2184
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • “Hard obscurantism” is a species of the genus scholarly obscurantism. A rough intensional definition of hard obscurantism is that models and procedures become ends in themselves, dissociated from their explanatory functions. In the present article, I exemplify and criticize hard obscurantism by examining the writings of eminent economists and political scientists.