http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/17/upshot/dont-be-so-sure-the-economy-will-return-to-normal.html?abt=0002&abg=0
On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 6:11 PM, Ian Murray <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > On 5/15/15, 11:49 AM, "Eugene Coyle" <[email protected] on > behalf of [email protected]> wrote: > > >Tyler Cowen has a blog called "Marginal Revolution." > > > >Today in NYT he was a musing that the economy isn't working. Which is to > say, "Everything I have believed and taught about economics is a lie." > > ========= > > Except that he does not say that at all. > > So economists have beliefs about capitalism that turn out to be incorrect; > who knew? > > The history[ies] of the so-called sciences are littered with errors. How > many economists will take even 1 hour to grapple with Larry Laudan's > argument on the role of errors in the pursuit of theories adequate to the > phenomena we inquire about. A recent iteration on the problem may be found > at the link: > > > >http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/1943/1/PMI_and_Two_Fallacies.pdf > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.com
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