Politics and economic policy in the age of political science
Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 2021-06-29
Summary:
Reading the London Review of Books, I came across this interesting essay by historian Adam Tooze about the transition of Paul Krugman from 1990s snobby center-left academic economist to 2000s angry left-wing pundit. This is something that’s puzzled me for awhile (see for example here and here), and Tooze give a plausible account of Krugman’s […]