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Rationally Speaking #179 - Dani Rodrik on "Is economics more art or science?"

2017/3/6
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Rationally Speaking Podcast

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This episode features Harvard economist Dani Rodrik, talking about the epistemology of economics: Are there any general "laws" of economics that we can be really confident in? Do economists discard models if the data doesn't support them? And why do economists disagree with each other?