Tag Archives: Varia

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[embedded content]As always, for you, Jeanette Meyer

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Lennart Schön (1946-2016) In Memoriam Swedish economic historians were deeply saddened to learn of the death earlier this month of professor Lennart Schön. Schön contributed to many areas of Swedish economic history. Most important was his development of a long-run cycles perspective on Swedish industrial society’s history (on which we worked together in a couple of research projects in the 1990s, carrying further the structural analytical tradition of Johan Åkerman, Erik Dahmén and Ingvar...

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 [embedded content] Jussi — still no. 1!

Bootstrapping and The Münchhausen Trilemma The Münchhausen Trilemma is a term used in epistemology to stress the impossibility to prove any truth even in the fields of logic and mathematics. The name Münchhausen Trilemma was coined by the German philosopher Hans Albert in 1968 in reference to a Trilemma of “dogmatism vs. infinite regress vs. psychologism” used by Karl Popper; it is a reference to the problem of “bootstrapping”, after the story of Baron Münchhausen, pulling himself and the...