Is It True that Economists Often Mistake Beauty for Truth?

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Is It True that Economists Often Mistake Beauty for Truth?


Economists Have a Lot to Learn From the Weather- Bloomberg

http://mobile.bloomberg.com/news/2012-04-08/economists-have-a-lot-to-learn-from-the-weather.html


The Social Sciences’ ‘Physics Envy’ – NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/01/opinion/sunday/the-social-sciences-physics-envy.html?_r=1


Test the Predictions – Or Check the Assumptions

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Test the Predictions – Or Check the Assumptions

 


Bryan Caplan and Adam Smith on Surprise

http://econfaculty.gmu.edu/klein/Caplan_on_surprise.html


A Great Example of Bias Within Academia « Freakonomics

http://www.freakonomics.com/2012/02/02/a-great-example-of-bias-within-academia/

 


Economists as World Philosophers

http://capitalism.columbia.edu/files/ccs/SHILLER%20Session%202%202011-08-23.pdf


Why I do not like the IS-LM model

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2011/10/why-i-do-not-like-the-is-lm-model.html


MY SYSTEM OF WORK (NOT!) – Dixit

http://www.princeton.edu/~dixitak/home/dixitwrk.pdf

 


THE IMPORTANCE OF ECONOMIC THEORY

http://www.fee.org/from-the-archives/the-importance-of-economic-theory/


The Importance of Selection Effects

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The Importance of Selection Effects

 


Panglossian Economics

http://www.thebigquestions.com/2011/08/31/panglossian-economics/


Praxeology

http://praxeology.squarespace.com/blog/2011/8/20/episode-9-uncertainty.html


Baby You Can Drive My Car

http://cafehayek.com/2011/08/baby-you-can-drive-my-car.html


Bastiat’s Letters

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Bastiat’s Letters


“One of the easiest ways to differentiate an economist from almost anyone else in society” « Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

http://andrewgelman.com/2011/07/one_of_the_easi/

 


“Underpants Gnomes” Political Economy – Art Carden – The Economic Imagination – Forbes

http://blogs.forbes.com/artcarden/2011/07/14/underpants-gnomes-political-economy/

 


A.B.A.: Always Be Advising

http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2011/07/aba_always_be_a.html#.Thr1-1mdrk4.facebook


What Economists Knew, and What Economists Forgot

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What Economists Knew, and What Economists Forgot

 


Carbon Pricing

http://mises.org/daily/5413/How-Mathematics-Can-Make-Smart-People-Dumb


Is Joe Stiglitz Really a Dissenter from the Conventional Wisdom in Economics?

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Is Joe Stiglitz Really a Dissenter from the Conventional Wisdom in Economics?

 


Fall Of The Economic High Priests – Investors.com

http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=576364&p=2

 


Where’s My Model?

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Where’s My Model?

 


The Best Article You will Read on The Bivalent Logic of Economic Analysis

http://www.coordinationproblem.org/2011/06/the-best-article-you-will-read-on-the-bi-variant-logic-of-economics.html


Where does good come from?

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2011/04/17/where_does_good_come_from/?page=full


ECONOMICS, NOT PHYSICS

http://www.fee.org/from-the-archives/economics-not-physics/


Social Science vs. Natural Science by Ludwig von Mises

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Social Science vs. Natural Science by Ludwig von Mises

Social Science vs. Natural Science by Ludwig von Mises. Published originally in the Journal of Social Philosophy & Jurisprudence, Vol. 7, No. 3, 1942, while Mises was working for the National Bureau of Economic Research. The essay examines the differences between the social and natural sciences.


Nancy Flobre: Economics for Sale?

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/16/economics-for-sale/?partner=rss&emc=rss

Economist Nancy Flobre, explaining how Koch funding of higher education corrupts academia. She, of course, is affliliated with the UMass Labor and Research Center ( http://www.umass.edu/lrrc/faculty/ ). They certainly aren’t as transparent as the Koch funded universities about their funding sources, but they do admit, “Much of this work has been funded by the labor movement.”


The Science of Economics and the Art of Political Economy

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The Science of Economics and the Art of Political Economy

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Friedman, Pinochet and the Moral Responsibility of Those Giving Economic Advice

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Friedman, Pinochet and the Moral Responsibility of Those Giving Economic Advice


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