Category Archives: EPISTEMOLOGY AND SCIENTIFIC METHOD
Nonstop Provocations as Pretexts for Imperial War: From Pearl Harbor to 9-11
NONSTOP Provocations as Pretexts FOR Imperial War: From Pearl Harbor to 9/11 Post Categories: Afghanistan | Tuesday, August 19, 2014, 16:04 Beijing Share on facebookShare on twitterShare on emailShare on printShare on gmailShare on stumbleuponShare on favoritesMore Sharing Services6Print [Editor’s … Continue reading
Explaining [and Economists Debating] the Scientific Difference Between Wealth and Income
Explaining the scientific difference between wealth and income to David Andolfatto January 24, 2014merijnknibbeLeave a commentGo to comments Wow. The way David Andolfotto uses economic phraseology in his blog is vague, incoherent, inconsistent and fuzzy – at least against the background … Continue reading
‘Over the Hill’: the Secular Decline of the Rate of ‘Fixed’ Investment in Rich Countries and Misdirection in the U.S.
Over the hill. The secular decline of the rate of ‘fixed’ investment in rich countries August 18, 2014 On Voxeu a book about secular stagnation has been published. Can I add something to this? Yes: information on the secular development of the rate … Continue reading
Why Read Marx or Any Historical Thinker or Even History Itself?
TERRELL CARVER From: Reading Marx: Life and works Why read Marx at all? Why take any notice of his biographical circumstances? Why read his works in historical context? Why should it matter reading one edition or translation rather than another? … Continue reading
On the Importance of Validating Assumptions in Statistics and Econometrics
On the importance of validating assumptions in statistics and econometrics August 17, 2014EditorLeave a commentGo to comments from Lars Syll In Andrew Gelman’s and Jennifer Hill’s Data Analysis Using Regression and Multilevel/Hierarchical Models, the authors list the assumptions of the linear regression model. … Continue reading
Marxism For the Few, Or, Let ‘Em’ Eat Theory
Marxism for the Few, Or, Let ‘Em Eat Theory by Doug Dowd Monthly Review, April 1982 The years since the Second World War have unquestionably produced more people in the United States who see themselves as Marxists, more Marxist periodicals and … Continue reading
Economics, Political Economy and Inequality
Unsound on equality August 15, 2014 from Peter Radford In a recent speech I gave on inequality, I described the relevance of economics in a series of quotes thusly: “Political economy you think is an enquiry into the nature and causes … Continue reading