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Another good one on foundations of science and economics, specifically macroeconomics — if you are into this sort of thing. These papers also fail to make any empirical predictions or really engage with data at all. I get the impression that people aren't actually interested in making predictions or an actual scientific approach to macro- or micro-economics, but rather in simply using science as a rhetorical device.... Information Transfer EconomicsThe ability to predictJason Smith
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Mike Norman considers the following as important: foundations of economics, philosophy of science
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Another good one on foundations of science and economics, specifically macroeconomics — if you are into this sort of thing. These papers also fail to make any empirical predictions or really engage with data at all. I get the impression that people aren't actually interested in making predictions or an actual scientific approach to macro- or micro-economics, but rather in simply using science as a rhetorical device.... Information Transfer EconomicsThe ability to predictJason Smith
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Mike Norman considers the following as important: foundations of economics, philosophy of science
This could be interesting, too:
Mike Norman writes Lars P. Syll — The ergodicity problem in economics (wonkish)
Mike Norman writes Book Review: Marxism and the Philosophy of Science — George Martin Fell Brown
Mike Norman writes Racism is a framework, not a theory — Andrew Gelman
Mike Norman writes Brian Romanchuk — Comments On Turning Points And Recessions
Another good one on foundations of science and economics, specifically macroeconomics — if you are into this sort of thing.
These papers also fail to make any empirical predictions or really engage with data at all. I get the impression that people aren't actually interested in making predictions or an actual scientific approach to macro- or micro-economics, but rather in simply using science as a rhetorical device....Information Transfer Economics
The ability to predict
Jason Smith