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journal article · Studying up: reflexivity, observation & method

Fallibility, Reflexivity, and the Human Uncertainty Principle

George Soros · 2013

Journal of Economic Methodology

George Soros's paper on fallibility, reflexivity, and the human uncertainty principle. The companion cites it for the observation that markets respond to the theories that model them, one of the human sciences' examples of subjects that change when described. Swarm ecology combines this tradition with biology's in studying up (§8).

Cited in
the companion paper (Companion §8)
Used for
Studying up (§8)
Strand
Studying up: reflexivity, observation & method · Reflexivity, performativity & studying up

Cite

@article{soros2013fallibility,
  title = {Fallibility, Reflexivity, and the Human Uncertainty Principle},
  author = {George Soros},
  year = {2013},
  journal = {Journal of Economic Methodology},
  doi = {10.1080/1350178X.2013.859415},
}