🌐 Global Economy Aug 13, 2026 · Lars Syll

Cherry-picking economic models

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Cherry-picking economic models
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from Lars Syll How would you react if a renowned physicist, say, Richard Feynman, were telling you that sometimes force is proportional to acceleration and at other times it is proportional to acceleration squared? I guess you would be unimpressed. But actually, what most mainstream economists do amounts to the same strange thing when it […]

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