I can only admire you for getting into this. I tried to read and understand Peirce a few years ago but found it much too difficult. Good luck. Mario Rizzo. On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 6:39 AM, Ramzi Mabsout <[log in to unmask]>wrote: > Dear colleagues, > > Would you be aware of any case studies (current or historical) or > concrete examples of Peirce's retroductive / abductive inferences in > economics (preferably) and the social sciences? > > I know Tony Lawson and Philip Mirowski discuss and offer some examples > but not much else. > > Thank you. > > All the best, > > > Ramzi Mabsout > Assistant professor > Economics department > American University of Beirut > -- Mario J. Rizzo NEW YORK UNIVERSITY Department of Economics 19 West 4th Street, Seventh Floor (725) New York, NY 10012 212-998-8932 (telephone, e-mail preferred) 212-995-4186 (fax) Personal website: http://works.bepress.com/mario_rizzo Colloquium: http://econ.as.nyu.edu/object/econ.event.colloquium Blog: http://thinkmarkets.wordpress.com Book Series: http://www.routledge.com/books/series/Routledge_Foundations_of_the_Market_Economy/