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We present a brief review of the potential uses of abduction in economic reasoning and review the chapters in the section on Abduction and Economics. There are two main areas in which abduction may play a role in Economics. One is in the development of hypotheses that may contribute to the development of a full theoretical framework of economic behavior. The other is in generating tools and procedures to detect and assess economic data. The four chapters in this section cover different aspects of the applications of abduction in Economics, ranging from discussions of historical and methodological nature to more specific applications in Econometrics and Macroeconomics.
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Tohmé, F. (2022). Introduction to Abduction and Economics. In: Magnani, L. (eds) Handbook of Abductive Cognition. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68436-5_87-1
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