Browsing Scientific articles by Author "Zhang, Tong"
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Critical Realism: A Critical Evaluation
Zhang, Tong (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Critical realism, championed by its proponents as the most promising post-positivist social science paradigm, has gained significant influence in the last few decades. This paper provides a critical evaluation of the ... -
Was Weber Really Wrong? A Comment on Some Recent Empirical Studies on Economic Growth
Zhang, Tong (Journal article, 2021)In the last two decades, there have been two influential papers in empirical economic growth, Becker and Woessmann (2009) and Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson (2001), which explicitly or implicitly claim that Weber's thesis ...