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Skepticism, Science & Pseudoscience

Boston_Chemist

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8. Economists rarely utilize actual scientific methodology in their work.

Reply to salvorhardin (Reply #4)

Tue Dec 20, 2011, 02:50 PM

Dec 2011

It is a field that is remarkably crowded with pundits and public figures, each working a political angle of some sort. That alone ought to give anyone reading books on economics pause for thought.

Caveat emptor.

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Freakonomics: What Went Wrong? [View all] salvorhardin Dec 2011 OP

I read Freakanomics and found it full of holes.... Scuba Dec 2011 #1

I did too salvorhardin Dec 2011 #2

Romm, Krugman, ... bananas Dec 2011 #3

Yeah, the climate change part of Super Freakonomics was an absolute mess salvorhardin Dec 2011 #4

Economists rarely utilize actual scientific methodology in their work. Boston_Chemist Dec 2011 #8

Well there was this one economist who used scientific methodology... Taverner Jan 2012 #11

Your review on GoodReads did not come up Lithos Dec 2011 #9

A brief followup from one of the authors of the article in the OP salvorhardin Dec 2011 #5

They're little better than numerologist bible-code hacks Nevernose Dec 2011 #6

I think that's a nice summary of economics. laconicsax Dec 2011 #7

"The science of explaining why the predictions you made yesterday didn't come true today" Nevernose Dec 2011 #10