Comments on Crash Landing: Samuelson Is Naked

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2008-12-23T20:12:00.000-05:00

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2008-12-23T03:05:00.000-05:00

LOL. Sorry, I didn't realize your browser was cutt...

2008-05-29T21:36:00.000-04:00

LOL. Sorry, I didn't realize your browser was cutting off the link.

In the future I will use the "href technique", though I do have some problems with those who use the term technique. Isn't "href format" more appropriate?

Here is the link.

2008-05-29T18:48:00.000-04:00

Here is the link.

Robert,I understand how to use a link; I'm not uns...

2008-05-29T18:40:00.000-04:00

Robert,

I understand how to use a link; I'm not unscientific. :) I'm saying though that I can't see all of the letters that you are pasting, because it's running off the right edge off the available window (at least in my browser).

So both to make it outright possible for me, and also more convenient for anyone else, it would be better if you did the h ref technique.

Bob, According to dictionary.com, the definition o...

2008-05-29T13:53:00.000-04:00

Bob,

According to dictionary.com, the definition of unscientific by Heritage dictionary is:

"Not knowledgeable about science or the scientific method."

Altough the assumption made is false, I think the author is viewing the methodology resulting in the assumption as being "unscientific". Thus, the assumption the author attacks is wrong on two levels.

Thus, I think we are both right:)

As for the link, just copy and paste:

http://nationaleconomist.com/blog/2008/05/27/an-inside-opinion-on-the-world-bank/

What the heck is your point, Wegner? Do you agree...

2008-05-29T10:02:00.000-04:00

What the heck is your point, Wegner? Do you agree with me that the word "scientific" doesn't mean the exact same thing as "true"? If I think so, am I committed to getting mad at anyone who ever uses the term "unscientific"?

If the Sc. American guy said, "Mainstream economists claim to be scientific because they model their equations on physics, but actually that is a bad analogy and plus those equations are obsolete in physics nowadays," I would have no problem. If he then said, "They are actually being unscientific" I would still have no problem.

But he said, "The following assumptions are unscientific," when clearly all he meant was, "The following are false and so why should we trust their conclusions?"

I still can't click on that link. Can you embed it in a word as a hyperlink or something? Can other people click on his link? In my browser the last letters are the an-ins...

It's not that the mainstream economists got their ...

2008-05-28T17:35:00.000-04:00

It's not that the mainstream economists got their assumptions by consulting the stars, as opposed to running double-blind experiments.

But, this IS Hayek's point that double-blind experiments in economics are the same as "consulting the stars"--actually even worse.

If I build a model on an assumption that falling rocks are angry, is this just a false assumption or unscientific?

Here's the Miss Long Legs link, again:

http://nationaleconomist.com/blog/2008/05/27/an-inside-opinion-on-the-world-bank/

You are right, Bob: e.g., Ptolemaic astronomy was ...

2008-05-28T11:35:00.000-04:00

You are right, Bob: e.g., Ptolemaic astronomy was not unscientific, it was just wrong.

Robert,The writer said the assumptions were unscie...

2008-05-28T10:29:00.000-04:00

Robert,

The writer said the assumptions were unscientific, not that the enterprise was unscientific. It's not that the mainstream economists got their assumptions by consulting the stars, as opposed to running double-blind experiments.

So all that writer really means is that the assumptions are false.

And your link is cut off, at least in my browser.

Bob,This sounds an awful lot like it is coming fro...

2008-05-28T08:58:00.000-04:00

Bob,

This sounds an awful lot like it is coming from original writing of Hayek and Rothbard. Keep in mind the sub-title to Hayek's book, The Counter-Revolution of Science, is "Studies on the Abuse of Reason", which sounds to me even harsher than 'unscientific'.

Also, I have found myself a supporter (with long legs)who's a mathematician and former World Bank consultant:

http://nationaleconomist.com/blog/2008/05/27/an-inside-opinion-on-the-world-bank/