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Causality in Macroeconomics

By Kevin D. Hoover (NHC Fellow, 1991–92) Causality in Macroeconomics examines causality while taking macroeconomics seriously. A pragmatic and realistic philosophy is joined to a macroeconomic foundation that refines Herbert Simon's well-known work on causal order to make a case for a structural approach to causality. The structural approach is used to understand modern rational … Continued

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Causation: A User’s Guide

By L. A. Paul (NHC Fellow, 2011–12) Causation is at once familiar and mysterious. Many believe that the causal relation is not directly observable, but that we nevertheless can somehow detect its presence in the world, and much work in the natural and social sciences relies on our ability to detect it. Yet neither common … Continued