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Much of this book was developed over a period of twenty-five years in
author's many methodology seminars at Simon Fraser University,

Does testability of a model really matter in economics? How would one know whether testability can ever matter? Why should testability matter to a model builder? These are the key questions addressed in this book. They involve the lofty concerns of methodology as well as the more mundane matters of model building itself.

this book is for two audiences.the primary audience is intended to be anyone who is intrested in the specific question of how tesability matters in economic model building.the second audience is envisaged as that growing band of young would-be methodlogists who i think ought to be more concerned with how grand notions about methodology actually affect the practice of ecinomics than with whether philosophers will turn their heads to listen. for this secondary audience the book should be seen as a case study.for the primary audience i think i have provided ample evidence that methodological concerns do matter in the everyday affairs of economics model builders and moreover,that model builderes ought not to take methodology for granted.