Category Archives: Real World Economics

‘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

Posted in Academic Left, despotic academia, EPISTEMOLOGY AND SCIENTIFIC METHOD, HOW TO LIE WITH STATISTICS, ideological classrooms, IMPERIAL HUBRIS AND HYPOCRISY, Imperial Impotence, INDIGENOUS SCIENCE AND SCIENTIFIC METHOD, MSM MANIPULATION, Neoclassical and Neo-liberal Economics, POLITICAL ECONOMY OF FASCISM, POLITICAL ECONOMY OF IMPERIALISM, REAL HISTORY UNCOVERED, Real World Economics, Revisionist History, rise and fall of empires | Leave a comment

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

Posted in despotic academia, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY, EPISTEMOLOGY AND SCIENTIFIC METHOD, Full SPECTRA Dominance, HOW TO LIE WITH STATISTICS, ideological classrooms, INDIGENOUS SCIENCE AND SCIENTIFIC METHOD, Real World Economics | Leave a comment