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work_4hs72gwguvagviuqziwifvnptu	Christopher Clarke	Preferences and Positivist Methodology in Economics	2016	23	.pdf	application/pdf	9706	721	62	will speak to the issue of 'false assumptions' only for the case of preference assignments in economic models. macro-economic models, for example, that do not assign preferences to agents. To this end, this section will articulate the shorthand story about preferences in economics in a non-standard way—in two respects. to express the theory of consumer demand, for example, solely in terms of counterfactual choices, without the need to refer to preferences of any sort (Varian shorthand story says that the real content of assignments of commonsense preferences in economic models are hypotheses about an agent's T-preferences. so by pointing out that the shorthand story does not itself entail positivist doctrine (6), which says that there is a practical, theory-independent procedure for given (4), that (5): only data about an agents' choices, and the external circumstances under which they make them, can support or undermine economic models.	./cache/work_4hs72gwguvagviuqziwifvnptu.pdf	./txt/work_4hs72gwguvagviuqziwifvnptu.txt