EJPE’S NOTE: This interview was conducted by Clemens Hirsch and C. Tyler DesRoches. Hirsch is a PhD candidate at the Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics (EIPE) at Erasmus University Rotterdam. DesRoches is a PhD student in the Philosophy Department at the University of British Columbia, and a co-editor of the Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics. Cambridge social ontology: an...

However, empirical experience with thousands of practical problems indicates that the number of iterations is usually close to the number of basic variables in the final set which were not present in the initial set. For an m-equation problem with m different variables in the final basic set, the number of iterations may run anywhere from m as a minimum, to 2m and rarely to 3m. The number is us...

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