Lars P. Syll — How to make economics a realist and relevant science

As yours truly has reported repeatedly lately, university students all over Europe are increasingly beginning to question if the kind of economics they are taught — mainstream neoclassical economics — really is of any value. Some have even started to question if economics really is a science.

How to make economics a realist and relevant science
Lars P. Syll | Professor, Malmo University

Philip Pilkington — Proud to Be a Nihilist: Bill Mitchell on Econometrics and Numerical Prediction

How to use mathematics fruitfully in economics without turning it into a magic wand and becoming involved in magical thinking that only produces the illusion of knowledge instead of the sought-after knowledge.

Fixing the Economists
Proud to Be a Nihilist: Bill Mitchell on Econometrics and Numerical Prediction
Philip Pilkington

Peter Radford — The Lucas Mystique

Peter Radford trashes the Lucas critique as magical thinking. Nice job.

Real-World Economics Review Blog

The Lucas Mystique
Peter Radford

George Chidi — Conservative media’s attacks on climate science effectively erode viewers’ belief in scientists

You knew this already, but here is the science. Of course, this won't affect the Fox News audience, which doen't believe in science.

When conservatives come away from Fox News feeling ever more certain that climate change is a hoax, it may have something to do with an overall attack on scientists as authorities to be trusted.

So argues a paper published in the August issue of peer-reviewed journal Public Understanding of Science, which connects the conservative disbelief in man-made climate change to a media-driven effort by conservatives to foment broad distrust of scientists.

The Raw Story
Conservative media’s attacks on climate science effectively erode viewers’ belief in scientists
George Chidi