We investigate the applicability of Rodrik's accounts of model selection and horizontal
progress to macroeconomic DSGE modelling in both academic and policy-oriented …

Taxonomists specializing in different groups once based phylogenetic analysis only on
morphological data; molecular data was used more rarely. Although molecular systematics …

The connection between unification and confirmation has been underappreciated. Although
seminal works in the literature allude to this connection, they typically fail to provide critical …

The concepts of reduction and unification are central to the philosophy of science. Roughly
speaking, we say that a field or theory is reducible to another field or theory when the …

Several philosophers have questioned the value of the scientific realism debate. The
accusations are varied in content but they have been trickling in at a constant rate. The aim …

Varios filósofos han cuestionado el valor del debate acerca del realismo científico. Las
acusaciones son variadas en contenido, pero han aparecido sin pausa. El objetivo de este …

Let us start with a description of Rodrik's ideas about selecting models. He tells the following
story about how economics ought to be, and partly is, conducted. Economists consider a …