...the brass ring here is not to make claims about causes of things. The brass ring is to demonstrate causes. Some stories are thin.Read it at The New Arthurian Economics
Results and the Claims of Causality
by The Arthurian
Science not about who can provide the best story. It's about demonstrating causal mechanisms through which predictable effects are transmitted.
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a good post here on undestanding society on 'causal realism and historical explanation':
http://understandingsociety.blogspot.com/2012/04/causal-realism-and-historical.html
Thanks for calling attention to Daniel Little, Oliver. I regularly follow his blog, and anyone interested in economics as a social science is well advised to do so.
His book Varieties of Social Explanation sets forth the principal theories of social causation.
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