May 2012
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peter lewin on complexity and human action
In Human Action and elsewhere, Mises emphasizes the difference between the natural and social sciences by pointing out that there are no constants in the latter. He means that there are no natural laws in social science equivalent to the law of gravity, or the constant speed of light. Human beings are not automata. Thus, our understanding of human action comes not from the empirical observation...
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today has been pretty awesome.
i broke major ground with my ongoing project with dr. stratmann at mercatus. after weeks of compiling and formatting data while collaborating with the previous RA on another continent, i finally got the regressions to run today. YES. i ran into some minor snags by the end of the day, but these issues are easily fixable, and more significantly, i have made...
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