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Prediction in economics

Wenceslao J. Gonzales: Philosophico-methodological analysis of prediction and its role in economics. Springer, 2015, 366pp, 129.99 € HB

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Hudik, M. Prediction in economics. Metascience 26, 71–74 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-017-0154-5

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