Inference to the Best Model of the Consumption Function
通过1930年代至1970年代初的三个消费函数研究案例，说明经济学家的实践可被理解为从现有证据和模型竞争中推断出最佳模型的过程。
Empirical tests in economics may not decisively confirm or disconfirm a theory. Three cases of studies of consumption function from the 1930s to the early 1970s discussed in this article show that we can interpret economists’ practices as inferences to derive the best model from the available evidence as well as from the competition among available models.