Economists need to develop abstractions in order to:
a. avoid analyzing real-world economic interactions, which are too complicated to understand.
b. distinguish normative economic behavior from positive economic behavior

c. avoid committing the fallacy of composition.
d. understand and explain economic behavior.


d

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