Lars P. Syll

Men kartläggning och analyser av detta slags släktbaserade nätverk som genom hot om våld och trakasserier ut­övar stor makt i invandrartäta förortsområden och genom detta allvarligt förhindrar integration lyser med sin frånvaro … I Sverige får man ha vilka värderingar man vill. Att omfatta och propagera för till exempel kommunistiska, islamistiska, kristna, reaktionära, feministiska, patriarkala och även totalitära värderingar ingår i de fri- och rättigheter som grundlagen...

Randomization — a philosophical device gone astray When giving courses in the philosophy of science yours truly has often had David Papineau’s book Philosophical Devices (OUP 2012) on the reading list. Overall it is a good introduction to many of the instruments used when performing methodological and science theoretical analyses of economic and other social sciences issues. Unfortunately, the book has also fallen prey to the randomization hype that...

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The history of econometrics There have been over four decades of econometric research on business cycles … But the significance of the formalization becomes more difficult to identify when it is assessed from the applied perspective … The wide conviction of the superiority of the methods of the science has converted the econometric community largely to a group of fundamentalist guards of mathematical rigour … So much so that the relevance of the research to...

Skogskyrkogården — A Masterpiece of Landscape Architecture .[embedded content] Skogskyrkogården, located in the southern suburbs of Stockholm, Sweden, is one of the most iconic cemeteries in the world. Designed by the renowned Swedish architects Gunnar Asplund and Sigurd Lewerentz, it is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and a masterpiece of modernist landscape architecture.

.[embedded content] Im Frühjahr 1984 besuchte yours truly einen guten Freund in Frankfurt und nutzte die Gelegenheit, einigen Vorlesungen von Habermas beizuwohnen. Beeindruckend und unvergesslich!

Keynes on the importance of ‘causal spread’ No doubt exists that an entirely different subject has taken over control when it comes to education in scientific methodology in almost the entire field, namely statistics … The value of the statistical regulatory system should of course not be questioned, but it should not be forgotten that other forms of reflection are also cultivated in the land of science. No single subject can claim hegemony… John Maynard...

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Stimulus opponents — people having high IQ but no clue The stimulus opponents’ argument boils down to this striking claim: When the government spends borrowed funds now, consumers will realize that the resulting debt spells higher taxes in the future, which will lead them to curtail their current spending. Those cutbacks will offset the increased government spending dollar for dollar, leaving no net stimulus … There may be people who would actually spend...

.[embedded content] Angesichts der Ergebnisse der jüngsten Landtagswahlen in Deutschland gibt es allen Grund, Schröters Ansichten sehr ernst zu nehmen. Andernfalls besteht ein großes Risiko, dass populistische Extremistenparteien wie die AfD und die BSW weiterhin ihre Positionen ausbauen.