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Armchair theorizing
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{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2021}}{{See|Thought experiment|Meta-analysis}}Armchair theorizing, armchair philosophizing, or armchair scholarship is an approach to providing new developments in a field that does not involve primary research and the collection of new information â but instead analysis or synthesis of existent scholarship, and the term is typically pejorative, implying such scholarship is weak or frivolous.See, for example, {{Harvcoltxt|Nadel|1956|p=173}}, who defines armchair anthropology. - the content below is remote from Wikipedia
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Different disciplines place different weights on purely theoretical research. Some anthropologists argue that purely theoretical anthropological research is outdated and that ethnographic fieldwork should be a necessary part of anthropological research.{{Harvcoltxt|Ingold|2007|p=82}} On the other hand, some commentators argue that economic theories are designed to explain and predict economic phenomena, which requires analysis and synthesis, and not necessarily collection, of data. Leland B. Yeager even argues that economists can legitimately extrapolate from their own personal observations to design new theories. In this sense, Yeager sees armchair theorizing as something more than the "mere sterile juggling of arbitrary assumptions," arguing that even without a traditional scientific method or field work, the practice can still be done in a manner that draws on "a sound empirical basis."Henry George and Austrian economics â History of Thought, The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Dec 2001 by Leland B. YeagerSee also
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{{Reflist}}References
- {{Citation |last=Ingold |first=Tim |title=Anthropology is not ethnography |work=Proceedings of the British Academy |volume=154 |pages=69â92 |year=2007}}
- {{Citation |last=Nadel |first=S.F. |title=Understanding primitive peoples |journal=Oceania |volume=26 |issue=3 |pages=159â173 |year=1956 |doi=10.1002/j.1834-4461.1956.tb00676.x}}
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- Discussion of On the Politics of Accounting Disclosure and Measurement: An Analysis of Economic Incentives, Dale Morse, Journal of Accounting Research, Vol. 19, Studies on Standardization of Accounting Practices: An Assessment of Alternative Institutional Arrangements (1981), pp. 36â42, {{doi|10.2307/2490981}}
- Planning Theory, In Defense of Armchair Theorizing, Seymour J. Mandelbaum, {{doi|10.1177/1473095206064975}}
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