
Episode 275: Economics Is About A Lot More Than Money
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Is There a Heat Hypothesis?
Sandy Fortland: I think my most favorite part of doing research and writing academic papers is coming up with all of the appropriate hedgings for the results that you have. As economists, we've got this problem that we can't conduct controlled experiments or very rarely can we conduct controlled experiments. So whenever it's human behavior, there's so much more nuance and you have to be careful. You can't say too much. It's a buttonly clear. That was a guy from the eye that came up with that idea and there have been a handful of tests of that. But as an honest and honorable social scientist, there are very few things I can say in terms of conclusion
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