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Economists share with all other rigorous analysts the need to simplify, to isolate variables, to narrow perspective in order to improve rigor in their analytical work and to make problems amenable to quantitative study. Of course, having established conceptual clarity, they then face the difficulty of relating their analytical concepts to the real world and of trying to determine the extent to which their analysis, in fact, fits the real world.
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Steele, L.W. (1977). The Economics of International Technology Transfer. In: Stroetmann, K.A. (eds) Innovation, Economic Change and Technology Policies. Interdisciplinary Systems Research / Interdisziplinäre Systemforschung. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-5867-0_10
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