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The Khavruta: Philosophy of Economics

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Author: Mickey Peled

I'm a Ph.D. student at Tel Aviv University. My research focuses on the forms of reasoning in the practice of central banks and specifically on the role of macro models.

Posted on 02/03/202102/03/2021

The Case for a Designated Policy-Relevant Account of Explanations

I recently read a surprising statement by top officials in the Bank of Israel (BOI), the country’s central bank. They made public their disappointment from…

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Posted on 06/05/201906/05/2019

Revealed Preference Theory re-examined (1): Can preference indicate choice?

A well-known phenomenon with Ph.D. students is that they often push so hard on writing something new, that they forget the basics. A similar thing…

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