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Cafe Hayek: Fancy empirical work

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I understand that science moves slowly and that people at the margin are who eventually count.

But I really don’t think the empirical record of sophisticated empirical work is very impressive. In fact, I think I could make a case that sophisticated empirical work is most productive for publishing papers and less productive at establishing truth or useful findings that are reliable.

via Cafe Hayek: Fancy empirical work.

Is economics better developed with the methods of the empirical sciences or the deductive sciences? I say, the deductive sciences.

Written by The Javelineer

14 June 2009 at 8:14 pm