newmogul

“The following is a highly edited version of a comment thread found on the blog Gene Expression.  The thread discusses the role of empricism verus deduction in the social sciences.  The star commenter PhysicistDave actually studied under Feynman, which gives him some nice cachet.  Unfortunately, Dave does not have his own blog.  I am republishing his comments so that I can send the link to people the next time I get in a debate over economics. The other commenters are Razib, the host of GNXP, and Mencius, a semi-retired (post-IPO) software engineer who spends $500 a month on books.” source...