Retroduction as mixed-methods triangulation in economic research: reorienting economics into social science
论证混合方法三角互证可理解为批判实在论倡导的回溯推理逻辑，为结合不同经济与社会思想传统提供基础，并支持打破学科边界、建立包含经济学的跨学科社会科学。
This paper argues that mixed-methods triangulation can be understood as the manifestation of retroduction, the logic of inference espoused by critical realism. As such, it can provide the basis upon which different insights upon the same phenomenon can be sensibly combined and thus has the potential to unite aspects of different traditions of economic and social thought. In this regard, the paper supports Lawson's view that the exclusive insistence on mathematical and statistical modelling in economics is misguided. The paper explores how disciplinary boundaries may be broken down and interdisciplinary social science, of which economics can be a part, established.