The vices of economists, the virtues of the bourgeoisie /
Over the past fifty years, economists have fallen into three bad habits - three 'vices': bad statistics, bad theory, and bad applications of statistics and theory to public affairs. This book details the vices, tracing them to the influence of three giants of the 1940s and 1950s in economi...
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| Jazyk: | English |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
c1996.
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Obsah:
- Ch. 1. The Boys in the Sandbox
- Ch. 2. The Irrelevance of Statistical Significance
- Ch. 3. The Futility of Blackboard Economics
- Ch. 4. The Arrogance of Social Engineering
- Ch. 5. A New, Modest, and Bourgeois Economics.