Austerity Defenses
8 hours ago
the blog of Daniel Kuehn
"Facts are stubborn things;
and whatever may be our wishes,
our inclinations, or the dictates
of our passion, they cannot alter
the state of facts and evidence."
- John Adams
"When the facts change I change my mind.
What do you do, sir?
- John Maynard Keynes
Daniel Kuehn is a doctoral candidate in economics at American University. He has a master's degree in public policy from George Washington University.
Evan, his brother, occasionally blogs on F&OST, but can usually be found here.
I suspect that in two to three hundred years social-scientists will be kind of embarrassed about the state of social science today.
ReplyDeleteAnd oh my goodness, it would be lovely if economics were on the same solid empirical footing as say physics.
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