Daily Archives: September 13, 2010

YOU (STILL) CAN’T PROVE ANYTHING IN ECONOMICS

Mark Thoma, a professor of the dark art/science who teaches economics at the University of Oregon, neatly summarizes what everyone knows and few discuss: you can persuasively make a case for just about anything in the dismal science, but proving it is something else. Meantime, it’s all about organizing facts.

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