The development of an economic hypothesis through intuition,…

Source: JAMB · 2023

The development of an economic hypothesis through intuition, insight, or logic is associated with

  1. Induction
  2. Deduction ✓
  3. Policy economics
  4. Normative economics
Explanation

Deduction starts from general assumptions reached by intuition, insight or logic. The economist then reasons step by step to a specific hypothesis.

Induction works the other way. It starts from observed facts and builds a general rule from them.

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