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Karl Mittermaier, Adam Smith, and Economic Methodology: A Comment on “The Invisible Hand and Some Thoughts on the Non-Existent in What We Study”

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Schumacher, R., Vergara-Fernández, M. Karl Mittermaier, Adam Smith, and Economic Methodology: A Comment on “The Invisible Hand and Some Thoughts on the Non-Existent in What We Study”. Journal of Contextual Economics – Schmollers Jahrbuch, 139(1), 159-176. https://doi.org/10.3790/schm.139.1.159
Schumacher, Reinhard and Vergara-Fernández, Melissa "Karl Mittermaier, Adam Smith, and Economic Methodology: A Comment on “The Invisible Hand and Some Thoughts on the Non-Existent in What We Study”" Journal of Contextual Economics – Schmollers Jahrbuch 139.1, , 159-176. https://doi.org/10.3790/schm.139.1.159
Schumacher, Reinhard/Vergara-Fernández, Melissa: Karl Mittermaier, Adam Smith, and Economic Methodology: A Comment on “The Invisible Hand and Some Thoughts on the Non-Existent in What We Study”, in: Journal of Contextual Economics – Schmollers Jahrbuch, vol. 139, iss. 1, 159-176, [online] https://doi.org/10.3790/schm.139.1.159
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Karl Mittermaier, Adam Smith, and Economic Methodology: A Comment on “The Invisible Hand and Some Thoughts on the Non-Existent in What We Study”

Schumacher, Reinhard | Vergara-Fernández, Melissa

Journal of Contextual Economics – Schmollers Jahrbuch, Vol. 139 (2019), Iss. 1 : pp. 159–176

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Schumacher, Reinhard, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, University of Potsdam, August-Bebel-Str. 89, 14882 Potsdam, Germany.

Vegara-Fernández, Melissa, Center for the History of Political Economy, Duke University, 419 Chapel Drive, Durham, NC, 27708, United States.

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Reinhard Schumacher / Melissa Vergara-Fernández: Karl Mittermaier, Adam Smith, and Economic Methodology: A Comment on “The Invisible Hand and Some Thoughts on the Non-Existent in What We Study” 1
1. Mittermaier on the Invisible Handand Adam Smith’s Method 2
2. Mittermaier on the Use of Fictionin Economics and Economic Methodology 9
References 1

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