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Economics from the Top Down

Economics from the Top Down
New ideas in economics and the social sciences
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Yazar Blair Fix

If you’re good at something that isn’t valued by other people, you won’t be rewarded. This is the tyranny of meritocracy.

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Yazar Blair Fix

The ideal of science is to respect the evidence — to take nobody’s word for it. But this cuts against our social instinct to pay deference to members of our tribe.

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Yazar Blair Fix

The social sciences, I’ve come to believe, don’t have a coherent concept of causation. To talk about ‘causation’ we need to have a boundary on cause and effect. I reflect on what this means for studying causation.