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Thursday, June 9, 2016
Cameron K. Murray — Time to revisit how we calculate expectations?
This is my favourite one minute lecture on economics: it's about rational expectations, expansionary austerity, and similar nonsense:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijsXA1RbYco&feature=youtu.be
Mark Blyth. A name to remember :)
ReplyDeleteThe whole video (~1h) is worth watching, haven't seen a better recap of liberalism and the current mess ever tbh.
ReplyDeleteVery good speech.
Remember last years article on the dearth of article retraction in economics?
ReplyDeleteSo I went over to retraction watch to see which economists have been held up to scrutiny and have been put on the wall of shame. A review this year improves upon last year, but still has me suspicious.
One poli-sci article that I remember from MNE was retracted for getting their statistics wrong and conclusions backward.