Economics is a field that exists between scientific objectivity and subjective interpretation. Suppose a policymaker is trying to decide whether a proposed new tax is a good idea. One economist might ...

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Review of Social Economy, Vol. 63, No. 3, The Best of the "Review of Social Economy": 1944-1999 (SEPTEMBER 2005), pp. 423-445 (23 pages) Two views of human nature underlie economic theory and any ...

Dody T. Eid ‘20 is an Economics concentrator in Leverett House. What is economics? To experts like Harvard Economics professor Raj Chetty ’00, economics is a science: Economists form hypotheses, ...

Norms—that is, specifications of what we ought to do—play a critical role in the study of informal argumentation, as they do in studies of judgment, decisionmaking and reasoning more generally.

Those were the thoughts of Houston Chronicle and Express-News columnist Chris Tomlinson in his commentary “Managing inflation, migration, disasters,” (SA Inc., Nov. 17.) While the second point is ...