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Showing posts with label realism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label realism. Show all posts
Saturday, February 9, 2019

Andrew Gelman — Our hypotheses are not just falsifiable; they’re actually false.

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On the practical side of philosophy of science. Adding nuance to Karl Popper on falsification. Further argument for the view that theor...
Sunday, August 20, 2017

Kenneth L. Pearce — George Berkeley and the power of words

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John Locke's epistemological realism versus George Berkeley's linguistic constructivism. Subsequent findings favor Berkeley's ...
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Wednesday, July 27, 2016

James W. Carden — The Fear of Hillary’s Foreign Policy

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The Bill Clinton presidency was characterized by the ascendence of liberal interventionist. Hillary's record is one of bringing togeth...
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Monday, April 18, 2016

Katehon — Neo-Marxism (The Third Paradigm)

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Immanuel Wallerstein on international relations (IR) . Important in understanding the global economy and liberal globalization under ...
Wednesday, February 10, 2016

Richard Sale — Ideology and Hillary’s Foreign Policy

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It's about much more than Hillary. Sic Semper Tyrannis Ideology and Hillary’s Foreign Policy Richard Sale
Wednesday, January 20, 2016

Lars P. Syll — ‘Deep parameters’ and microfoundations

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Lars continues on the offensive. Lars P. Syll’s Blog ‘Deep parameters’ and microfoundations Lars P. Syll | Professor, Malmo University
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Friday, January 15, 2016

Simon Wren-Lewis — Heterodox economists and mainstream eclecticism

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The gloves are off. I think that SWL misses the point. The objection is to "our way or the highway." And Lars was right. The ...
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Saturday, October 17, 2015

Lars P. Syll — Why experimental economics is no real alternative to neoclassical economics

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Platonists versus Aristotelians. Lars P. Syll’s Blog Why experimental economics is no real alternative to neoclassical economics Lars P. Syl...
Monday, October 12, 2015

Jason Smith — Noah is stealing my material

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More on econ as science. Noah says to prove the assumptions are wrong. Lars says show that they are correct. Who has the better case?...
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Saturday, June 20, 2015

Max Schröder — Chessonomics – The Case for Formalism in Economics

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Fun. Glasgow University Real World Economics Society Chessonomics – The Case for Formalism in Economics Max Schröder See also Sev...
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Tuesday, June 9, 2015

Lars P. Syll — Economic methodology

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More commentary from Lars about economic assumptions including methodological, pointing out that this is really not about economics as such...
Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Mark Buchanan — In Economics, What Calculates Isn't Always Right

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This mathematical-purist approach came from a rather odd place. As Roy Weintraub relates in his excellent book "How Economics Became a...
Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Chris Dillow — "Consistent with"

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In discussing Paul Romer's wonderful concept of mathiness *, Peter Dorman criticizes economists' habit of declaring a theory succes...
Friday, May 8, 2015

Fyodor Lukyanov — The What-Not-To-Do List

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If the West really wants to build a new relationship, then it has to understand Russia much better than it does today. Here are a few recom...
Sunday, May 3, 2015

Vasilis Trigkas — Chimerica in Decline?

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China’s resilient authoritarianism – or at least Beijing’s continued adherence to a distinctively non-Western polity – has for the moment ...
Thursday, April 30, 2015

Peter Radford — Coase and Reality

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Another screed on why conventional economics is unrealistic from Peter Redford, this one based on Ronald Coase. In his introduction to a...
Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Edward Fulbrook — “Is there anything worth keeping in standard microeconomics?”

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For me three economists stand out historically as having been the most effective at building resistance to the dominance of scientism in ec...
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Sunday, April 12, 2015

Jason Smith — All models are wrong, but some are tedious

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All models are wrong is properly taken as a rallying cry against tedium. Macroeconomists should not be adding variables and complications t...
Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Lars P. Syll — ‘New Keynesian’ haiku economics

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A lot of mainstream economists out there still think that price and wage rigidities are the prime movers behind unemployment. What is even ...
Sunday, December 21, 2014

Lord Keynes — Are all Facts Theory-Laden?

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Yes, facts are theory-laden. Ludwig Wittgenstein elucidated how this so through his investigation of logic, both scientific language in th...
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