Folk som har otur när de försöker tänka …
Att olika åsikter möts är bra, och inte farligt. Det viktiga är att vi kan tala om dem på skolan – och det gör vi. Namnändringen är fortfarande en relevant fråga. Men inte för att alla förväntas hålla...
View ArticleSay ‘consistent’ one more time and I …
Being able to model a credible world, a world that somehow could be considered ‘similar’ to the real world is not the same as investigating the real world. The minimalist demand on models in terms of...
View ArticleAdorno on pop culture
When Adorno issued his own analyses of pop culture, though, he went off the beam. He was too irritated by the new Olympus of celebrities—and, even more, by the enthusiasm they inspired in younger...
View ArticleEconomics — where does it lead us?
The issue of interpreting economic theory is, in my opinion, the most serious problem now facing economic theorists. The feeling among many of us can be summarized as follows. Economic theory should...
View ArticleEkonomi – vetenskap eller gissningslek?
Är nationalekonomi vetenskapligt baserad kunskap? Kan man förutspå hur enskilda individer eller hela samhällen kommer att agera ekonomiskt? Till exempel om miljonbonusar gör toppchefer mer lojala mot...
View ArticleOn the irrelevance of mainstream economics
There is something about the way mainstream economists construct their models nowadays that obviously doesn’t sit right. One might have hoped that humbled by the manifest failure of its theoretical...
View ArticleKeynes on the methodology of econometrics
There is first of all the central question of methodology — the logic of applying the method of multiple correlation to unanalysed economic material, which we know to be non-homogeneous through time....
View ArticleFrank Hahn on the value of equilibrium economics
It cannot be denied that there is something scandalous in the spectacle of so many people refining the analyses of economic states which they give no reason to suppose will ever, or have ever, come...
View ArticleThe leap of generalization
Statistician Andrew Gelman has an interesting blogpost up on what inference in science really means: I like Don Rubin’s take on this, which is that if you want to go from association to causation,...
View ArticleModels and laws in economics
Great lecture on how to do — and not to do — economics, delivered by Robert Skidelsky.
View ArticleAvec le temps
. Quel chef d’oeuvre! Cette tellement triste, belle et émouvante chanson, touche le plus profond de mon âme.
View ArticleLogistic regression (student stuff)
. In the video below (in Swedish) yours truly shows how to perform a logit regression using Gretl.
View ArticleChicago economics — the triumph of empty formalism
Vielleicht ist diese Grundperspektive der radikalen Trennung von Form und Gehalt hilfreich, einige zunächst überaus paradoxe Äußerungen von Lucas etwas zu erhellen. Erinnert man sich der Forderungen...
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