June seems an appropriate time for my annual ceteris paribus festival. You haven’t heard of that one? It’s the event that celebrates the beauty of economic theory and allows us to lift our glass ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Taking seriously the arguments of Earman, Roberts and Smith that ceteris paribus laws have no semantics and cannot be tested, I suggest that ...

From my earliest days as an economic major, almost at the same time as I was studying supply and demand, I learned the phrase ceteris paribus which translates into “all other things remaining the same ...