Critical thinking on the Samuelsonian Gospel according to John and David.

CRITICAL thinking; SOCIAL theory; PHILOSOPHY of economics; MICROECONOMICS; BEHAVIORAL economics

By the duties of love, it's hard for me to be critical of my old and dear friends John and David. No, it doesn't, not the way economics has operated since Lawrence Klein established I t- i tests as the sole criterion for testing, and Tjalling Koopmans ([7]) issued the constitution of modern economics. I've never got what she's talking about!" You, and John and David, really need to stop whining about having to actually exercise some critical thinking about empirical work in economics. [Extracted from the article]

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