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August 20, 2008
Bryan Caplan
Writing instructors often attack the use of the words "obvious," "of course," and the like. "If it's 'obvious,'" they mock,......MORE
August 20, 2008
Arnold Kling
In a very short, satirical paper, James Heckman writes, Provided conditional density (1) is assumed, we do not need to......MORE
August 18, 2008
Bryan Caplan
I often disagree with people who know more about a given topic than I do. For example, the typical economist......MORE
August 6, 2008
Bryan Caplan
Confession: When Scott Page's book The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies came......MORE
July 29, 2008
Bryan Caplan
On many exams, professors give students e.g. 4 questions, then say "Answer any three." The point, I suppose, is to:......MORE
July 29, 2008
Bryan Caplan
When the typical professor reads a referee's rejection letter, his standard explanation is that "The referee was an idiot." Most......MORE
June 19, 2008
Bryan Caplan
In 1975, Ann Landers asked her readers a hypothetical question: If you had you had your life to live over......MORE
June 17, 2008
Arnold Kling
I received an email from a reader who was very excited to find that over the past 70 years the......MORE
June 11, 2008
Bryan Caplan
From Robert Gordon's "Everyday Life As An Intelligence Test":Even defense attorney Alan Dershowitz was guilty of faulty probability reasoning when......MORE
May 28, 2008
Bryan Caplan
Tyler's said this before, but it still flabbergasts me:It's funny how Bryan thinks he can cite my actions as evidence......MORE
April 25, 2008
Bryan Caplan
Who knows enough about the data to say how many of the 15 rematch bets Ehrlich would have won?......MORE
April 25, 2008
Bryan Caplan
Tyler says that John Rawls is the "least Hansonian thinker" ever. But perhaps Paul Ehrlich is a better candidate. Here's......MORE
April 22, 2008
Bryan Caplan
Once again, Robin's doing what he does best: get meta. I've argued that Sylvia Hewlett hurt her book sales by......MORE
April 2, 2008
Bryan Caplan
Here are my two Laws of Fundamentalism: 1. In any textual dispute between fundamentalists and moderates of the same creed,......MORE
March 17, 2008
Bryan Caplan
In most twin studies, the twins themselves (or their parents) report "twin type" - i.e., whether the twins are identical......MORE
March 12, 2008
Bryan Caplan
The true author of each of these sentences is a noted Nobel prize-winner. Still, if a grad student wrote any......MORE
March 12, 2008
Bryan Caplan
Dan Phiffer, a blogger I met at SXSW, has set up a little "wisdom of crowds" experiment on his blog.......MORE
March 10, 2008
Bryan Caplan
Murray Rothbard seems to misunderstand some elementary lessons about monetary economics. He was a brilliant polymath, so it's hard to......MORE
March 4, 2008
Arnold Kling
Reviewing the last chapter of Tim Harford's The Logic of Life, Fabio Rojas writes, the market system itself, as indicated......MORE
February 28, 2008
Bryan Caplan
In a critique of Brink Lindsey, Arnold writes: "I think that my co-blogger would go ballistic over this 'nurture assumption'......MORE
There are 100 entries listed in this category (Economic Methods). The most recent are listed above. If there are more than 20, here are the rest:
Useful Research (January 13, 2008)
Twilight of My Liberal Idol (January 09, 2008)
Questions for Arnold (December 05, 2007)
Standards of Proof (December 05, 2007)
Arnold's Standards of Science: Does Anything Measure Up? (December 05, 2007)
Online Seminar (November 14, 2007)
Rojas Bleg (November 12, 2007)
Me Versus the Economic Consensus (October 26, 2007)
Econometric Confirmation Bias (October 22, 2007)
Clark gives Greif Grief (October 16, 2007)
Mankiw's Pithiest... Post... Ever. (October 13, 2007)
Surowiecki's Levy and Peart's Mistake (October 05, 2007)
Scott Adams on the Economic Way of Thinking (October 01, 2007)
The Messiness of Economic Analysis (September 12, 2007)
Would a Truth-Seeker Ask? (August 14, 2007)
Tyler on Trusting Experts (August 02, 2007)
Leveraging Agreement (August 01, 2007)
Reliability of Survey Data (July 31, 2007)
Who to Trust? (July 30, 2007)
With Rebuttal from Dan Klein? (July 12, 2007)
I Heart Econ (July 09, 2007)
Where Numbers Come From (July 06, 2007)
Why I Believe in Moderate Global Warming, But Lose No Sleep Over It (June 28, 2007)
More on the Height of Bravery (June 19, 2007)
Hanson Convinces Me that Astrology Is a Science (June 13, 2007)
Paul Ormerod (June 01, 2007)
Intellectual Arrogance (June 01, 2007)
On heterodox Economics and Innovation (May 31, 2007)
Dogs Not Barking (May 17, 2007)
Truth in Advertising: Does the Journal of Economic Theory Contain Economics or Theory? (May 17, 2007)
Scholastics and Pietists (May 14, 2007)
Inteview with Nassim Taleb (April 30, 2007)
Robert Solow on Model-Building (April 24, 2007)
Biases in Evaluation Scales (April 18, 2007)
Papers that look interesting (April 18, 2007)
Mankiw Defends his Tall Tale (April 17, 2007)
Taxation and Instrumental Variables (April 17, 2007)
Defending Freakonomics (March 28, 2007)
Shimer on Acemoglu (March 04, 2007)
Subjective Relative Measurement (February 23, 2007)
An Economist or a Public Intellectual? (January 25, 2007)
Economists: The World's Got a Problem With Us (December 04, 2006)
Hail the Victorious Dead (November 16, 2006)
Milton Friedman (November 16, 2006)
My Favorite Example of a Biased Statistic (November 03, 2006)
Who's On Your Shoulder? (November 03, 2006)
Tyler: A Plague on Both Your Houses (October 24, 2006)
An Outside Perspective on GMU (October 24, 2006)
The Math Bubble (October 19, 2006)
Freeze - Statistics Police! (September 02, 2006)
Lifespan and Heritability (August 31, 2006)
Lazy Thinking (July 26, 2006)
Trust Cues (June 27, 2006)
Popular Opinion (June 22, 2006)
Intellectual Gladiators (June 21, 2006)
Skepticism About Junk (June 01, 2006)
Economics non-junk Science (May 31, 2006)
Not Junk? A Question for Arnold (May 31, 2006)
Economic Junk Science (May 31, 2006)
Macroeconomics and Confirmatory Bias (May 16, 2006)
Behavioral Science vs. Happiness Research (February 18, 2006)
Measurement Without Measurement (February 15, 2006)
Wild Hypotheses (January 09, 2006)
Multicollinearity and Micronumerosity (September 20, 2005)
Economics and Autism (August 14, 2005)
Another Take on What's Wrong With Economics (August 01, 2005)
What's Wrong with Conventional Economics? (July 31, 2005)
Measuring Health Care Effectiveness (June 17, 2005)
Stat Fight, Con't (June 02, 2005)
Deadly Chicago Econometrics (June 01, 2005)
Don't Believe Behaviorism's Dead? I Say! (April 16, 2005)
Behaviorism in Economics: A Funeral (April 14, 2005)
Bleg: looking for SAS help (March 03, 2005)
Math and Economics (March 02, 2005)
Unprovable Speculations (January 04, 2005)
Paul Samuelson (September 10, 2004)
All's Fair in Politics (August 14, 2004)
Statistical Jargon (February 11, 2004)
Sowell on Math and Economics (December 31, 2003)
Math and Economics (December 16, 2003)
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