TY - SER AU - Downward,Paul AU - Finch,John H. TI - Critical realism, empirical methods and inference: a critical discussion KW - ANALISIS ECONOMICO KW - KEYNESIANISMO KW - METODOLOGIA ECONOMICA KW - TEORIA KEYNESIANA N1 - Cómo citar éste artículo con Normas APA: Downward, P., Finch, J. H., Ramsay, J. (2002). Critical realism, empirical methods and inference: a critical disscusion. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 26 (4), 481-500 recuperado de https://www.jstor.org/stable/23602026; Bibliografía de la asignatura Metodología de la Economía. Licenciatura en Economía (plan 2009), 2do semestre. N2 - This paper reviews the critical realist critique of the methods of analysis adopted in neoclassical research and argues that there is scope for clearer guidance for economics researchers who wish to pursue empirical research in the critical realist tradition. It is argued that critical realist epistemology, derived from its open‐systems ontology, is unnecessarily dismissive in rejecting research methods that draw inferences from stable empirical regularities and patterns. The argument draws upon Keynes's philosophical explanations of decision‐making and probability, on behavioural and institutional explanations of emerging and stable institutions, and on inductive research techniques such as grounded theory, to establish a role for a plurality of quantitative and qualitative approaches to critical realist research UR - https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfvNBXSbzeoAbwXKPHSt3x-dDOR0St47m8JGkd6vQY-NVjsiw/viewform?vc=0&c=0&w=1 ER -