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Steven Levitt on Freakonomics and the State of Economics

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Is There Any Debt or Fraud in Economics?

In psychology, where there have been huge prices paid by people who have been a. who have been fraudulent, that thi sgy goes along just fine. No one holds it against hem. There's never been a discussion. The problem is that the space of problems that we deal with, like the set of things that fall under the rubric gonce, is enormous and expansive relative the number of economists. But so somebody finds out that somebody made a terrible data error on a paper, the 14 economists who care a little bit about that maybe lower that person in their opinion. Maybe they, you know, you know,. they, they, they talk about but the discipline itself, it

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