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Real-world economics is a school of economics that uses an inductive method to understand economic processes. It approaches economics without making a priori assumptions about how ideal markets work, in contrast to what Nobel Prize-winning economist, Ronald Coase, referred to as "blackboard economics" and its deductive method.[1]

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References

  1. ^ Coase, R. H. (1987). The Firm, the Market, and the Law. University of Chicago Press. p. 19.
  • Fullbrook, Edward, ed. (2007). Real World Economics: A Post-Autistic Economics Reader. Anthem Press. ISBN 9781843312369.
  • What Every Economics Student Needs to Know and Doesn't Get in the Usual Principles Text. Routledge. 2014. p. 7. ISBN 9780765639233.