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Noah Smith on Whether Economics is a Science
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Length:
69 minutes
Released:
Dec 28, 2015
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Podcast episode
Description
Noah Smith of Stony Brook University and writer at Bloomberg View talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about whether economics is a science in some sense of that word. How reliable are experiments in economics? What about the statistical analysis that underlies much of the empirical work in modern economics? Additional topics include the reliability of the empirical analysis of the minimum wage, the state of macroeconomics, and the role of prejudice or prior beliefs in the interpretation of data and evidence.
Released:
Dec 28, 2015
Format:
Podcast episode
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