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Lars Pålsson Syll
Professor at Malmö University. Primary research interest - the philosophy, history and methodology of economics.

Lars P. Syll

Bengt Nilsson In Memoriam (personal)

Bengt Nilsson In Memoriam (personal) Idag har varit en av de tyngsta dagarna i mitt liv. Min vän Bengt Nilsson begravdes idag på Norra Kyrkogården i Lund. Inga ord kan riktigt beskriva vad man känner när ens bästa vän sedan mer än trettio år helt plötsligt inte längre finns där. Man minns skratten, glädjen, omtanken, den mäktiga intelligensen, den drastiska humorn, och det starka sociala patoset. Livet går vidare — men kommer alltid att vara lite gråare,...

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Ekonomistas — allt från etablissemangsekonomers färdigtuggade skräpmat till läsvärda ariklar

Ekonomistas — allt från etablissemangsekonomers färdigtuggade skräpmat till läsvärda ariklar För att utröna vilka effekter skolval har är det naturligtvis centralt att känna till vilken typ av skolor familjer föredrar. Det finns i princip två sätt att få kunskap kring detta: man kan fråga familjer vilken typ av skolor de uppskattar och man kan observera vilka skolor familjer faktiskt väljer. Vilken metod man väljer kan ge väldigt olika svar, vilket...

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The connection between cause and probability

The connection between cause and probability Causes can increase the probability​ of their effects; but they need not. And for the other way around: an increase in probability can be due to a causal connection; but lots of other things can be responsible as well … The connection between causes and probabilities is like the connection between a disease and one of its symptoms: The disease can cause the symptom, but it need not; and the same symptom can...

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When odds ratios mislead (wonkish)

When odds ratios mislead (wonkish) A few years ago, some researchers from Georgetown University published in the New England Journal of Medicine a study that demonstrated systematic race and sex bias in the behavior of America’s doctors. Needless to say, this finding was widely reported in the media: Washington Post: “Physicians said they would refer blacks and women to heart specialists for cardiac catheterization tests only 60 percent as often as they...

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Ricardian vice

Ricardo’s … interest was in the clear-cut result of direct, practical significance. In order to get this he cut that general system to pieces, bundled up as large parts of it as possible, and put them in cold storage — so that as many things as possible should be frozen and ‘given.’ He then piled one simplifying assumption upon another until, having really settled everything by theses assumptions, he was left with only a few aggregative variables between which, he set up...

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Ketchup economics

The increasing ascendancy of real business cycle theories of various stripes, with their common view that the economy is best modeled as a floating Walrasian equilibrium, buffeted by productivity shocks, is indicative of the depths of the divisions separating academic macroeconomists … If  these theories are correct, they imply that the macroeconomics developed in the wake of the Keynesian Revolution is well confined to the ashbin of history. And they suggest that most of the...

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I den stora sorgens famn (personal)

I den stora sorgens famn (personal) [embedded content] Med värme och kärlek tillägnad Ingrid, Anton och Iskra. Vän! I förödelsens stund, när ditt inre av mörker betäckes, När i ett avgrundsdjup minne och aning förgå, Tanken famlar försagd bland skugggestalter och irrbloss, Hjärtat ej sucka kan, ögat ej gråta förmår; När från din nattomtöcknade själ eldvingarne falla, Och du till intet, med skräck, känner dig sjunka på nytt, Säg, vem räddar dig...

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