
Publication details
Year: 2016
Pages: 2159-2184
Series: Synthese
Full citation:
, "Tool-box or toy-box? hard obscurantism in economic modeling", Synthese 193 (7), 2016, pp. 2159-2184.


Tool-box or toy-box? hard obscurantism in economic modeling
pp. 2159-2184
in: Synthese 193 (7), 2016.Abstract
“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.
Publication details
Year: 2016
Pages: 2159-2184
Series: Synthese
Full citation:
, "Tool-box or toy-box? hard obscurantism in economic modeling", Synthese 193 (7), 2016, pp. 2159-2184.