在实用经济学的研究方法学(ppt 21)

Research methodology provides the principles for organizing, planning, designing, and conducting research.
The central reason for studying research methodology is that it provides a time-tested, proven means of producing new, reliable knowledge.

Economic research methodology is, in a sense, science and art of  economics rolled together, with its goal being to both expand our knowledge and make the knowledge relevant the contemporary world.

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