Bill Gates Slams Unreliable Wind and Solar Energy
20 Feb 2019 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: solar power, wind power
Romer v. Lucas
19 Feb 2019 Leave a comment
A couple of months ago, Paul Romer created a stir by publishing a paper in the American Economic Review “Mathiness in the Theory of Economic Growth,” an attack on two papers, one by McGrattan and Prescott and the other by Lucas and Moll on aspects of growth theory. He accused the authors of those papers of using mathematical modeling as a cover behind which to hide assumptions guaranteeing results by which the authors could promote their research agendas. In subsequent blog posts, Romer has sharpened his attack, focusing it more directly on Lucas, whom he accuses of a non-scientific attachment to ideological predispositions that have led him to violate what he calls Feynman integrity, a concept eloquently described by Feynman himself in a 1974 commencement address at Caltech.
It’s a kind of scientific integrity, a principle of scientific thought that corresponds to a kind of utter…
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The French Resistance – was it of any use to anyone?
19 Feb 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: France, World War II
MedEvac suspicions confirmed
19 Feb 2019 1 Comment
in international economics, International law, law and economics, politics - Australia Tags: economics of immigration
Why Denmark Is .07 Seconds Behind The World
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in economics of media and culture
A handy guide
19 Feb 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, Marxist economics Tags: regressive left
Why the UK Desperately Wants This Rock to Be Inhabitable
19 Feb 2019 Leave a comment
in international economic law, International law Tags: British politics
Useful Idiots
18 Feb 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of education, Marxist economics, Public Choice Tags: useful idiots
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