Economia
- O Papel De Matemática Na Economia
Economics Has a Math Problem By Noah Smith A lot of people complain about the math in economics. Economists tend to quietly dismiss such complaints as the sour-grapes protests of literary types who lack the talent or training to hack their...
- Amor Para A Ciência
"I think there is only one way to do science – or to do philosophy for that matter; to meet a problem, to see its beauty and fall in love with it; to get married to it, and to live with it happily, till death do ye part - unless you should meet...
- As Causas Da Crise Financeira Global
Cato UnboundThe Real Problem was Nominalby Scott Sumner Lead Essay September 14th, 2009A recent series of articles in The Economist argued that the current financial crisis has exposed important flaws in modern economic theory. I will make a slightly...
- O Que Está Errada Com A Macroeconomia?
What's Wrong with Macroeconomics?Nick Rowe: John Cochrane, Paul Krugman, and Say's Law, again Brad Delong: In Which Nick Rowe Says John Cochrane Commits "Small But important" Errors... Free Exchange: Which caricature do you prefer? Mario Rizzo:...
- Conhecimentos Errados
"The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that aren't true."--attributed to Mark Twain Easy answers are seldom correct ones. That principle seems to be at work as the nation struggles to discover...
Economia
A ignorância dos economistas
The Fed's Major Problem Is The Simple Ignorance Of Economists
There’s an awful lot of very clever people who do very good work as economists. However, the Federal Reserve’s main problem as we climb back up out of the Great Recession is that there’s still an awful lot that we just don’t know about the economy. What we might call the ignorance of the economists. Just to emphasise, this isn’t claiming that all economists (or even ideologically opposed ones) are idiots or fools, it is simply that the state of the science is that there’s a lot of things we don’t know. In macroeconomics the problem is especially bad: we’re better than chemistry was when it was still considering phlogiston but not as advanced as physics is, say, with nuclear reactions and decay. Which makes this a rather interesting point:
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- O Papel De Matemática Na Economia
Economics Has a Math Problem By Noah Smith A lot of people complain about the math in economics. Economists tend to quietly dismiss such complaints as the sour-grapes protests of literary types who lack the talent or training to hack their...
- Amor Para A Ciência
"I think there is only one way to do science – or to do philosophy for that matter; to meet a problem, to see its beauty and fall in love with it; to get married to it, and to live with it happily, till death do ye part - unless you should meet...
- As Causas Da Crise Financeira Global
Cato UnboundThe Real Problem was Nominalby Scott Sumner Lead Essay September 14th, 2009A recent series of articles in The Economist argued that the current financial crisis has exposed important flaws in modern economic theory. I will make a slightly...
- O Que Está Errada Com A Macroeconomia?
What's Wrong with Macroeconomics?Nick Rowe: John Cochrane, Paul Krugman, and Say's Law, again Brad Delong: In Which Nick Rowe Says John Cochrane Commits "Small But important" Errors... Free Exchange: Which caricature do you prefer? Mario Rizzo:...
- Conhecimentos Errados
"The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that aren't true."--attributed to Mark Twain Easy answers are seldom correct ones. That principle seems to be at work as the nation struggles to discover...