Comments on: Mistaking Effect for Cause

By: Brian Pitt

Brian Pitt — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:20:44 +0000

Thanks for the plug KMcNeel!

By: K McNeel

K McNeel — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:22:23 +0000

This is pretty interesting. There’s been some work on whether legal realism (and other views of judicial decision-making) are adequate models of how judges make decisions. Here’s the link to a paper by Giacomo Ponzetto and Patricio Fernandez, for example: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1116784

By: Dain

Dain — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:17:13 +0000

Or, is this just another case of how empirical arguments, whether pro or anti, sustain the critique capitalism?

No more than non-empirical arguments do.

In this case it would seem Burczak is unaware of – or disagrees with – the empirical arguments found in, for example, How The West Grew Rich.