Situational analysis beyond 'single-exit' modelling
认为情境分析是主流微观经济学的方法，也可用于异端经济学研究，但需脱离理性原则、放弃封闭系统建模并采用溯因推理。
Situational analysis (SA) is currently the method of mainstream microeconomics, and this paper maintains that it may also perform an important role in heterodox research programmes in economics. Its most elaborate version in economics, the 'single-exit' modelling approach, is an epistemologically driven endeavour which does not take full account of the way our world works. In this paper, it is argued that a fully consistent SA that is firmly grounded on sound human ontological foundations can be pursued if it is detached from the Rationality Principle, if closed-system modelling is abandoned, and if a retroductive mode of inference is embraced. Copyright 2004, Oxford University Press.