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The economic point of view

Andrew M. Yuengert (Pepperdine): The Space between Choice and Our Models of It: Practical Wisdom and Normative Economics. Stephen Ziliak (Roosevelt) and Deirdre Nansen McCloskey (UIC): Lady Justice v. Cult of Statistical Significance: Oomph-Less Science and the New Rule of Law. Ajay K. Mehrotra (Indiana): Charles A. Beard and The Columbia School of Political Economy: Revisiting the Intellectual Roots of the Beardian Thesis. Steven G. Medema (Colorado): Identifying a “Chicago School” of Economics: On the Origins, Evolution, and Evolving Meanings of a Famous Brand Name. Patrice Bougette (Nice), Marc Deschamps (Lorraine), and Frederic M. Marty (CNRS): When Economics Met Antitrust: The Second Chicago School and the Economization of Antitrust Law. Todd J. Zywicki (George Mason): Is There a George Mason School of Law and Economics? Noah Smith on Austrian economists, 9/11 truthers and brain worms. Erik Angner (George Mason): “To Navigate Safely in the Vast Sea of Empirical Facts”: Ontology and Methodology in Behavioral Economics. You can download The Behavioral Economics Guide 2014, ed. Alain Samson. In what sense did economics go astray? Paul Krugman on how to get it wrong. Dean Baker on influencing the debate from outside the mainstream: Keep it simple. Matthew McCaffrey (Manchester): Incentives and the Economic Point of View: The Case of Popular Economics. Claire Jones on how universities across four continents are rolling out a revamped economics curriculum, after students protested that conventional academic courses failed to grapple with the problems befalling the global economy. Jean Tirole won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Economics for actually showing us how the real world works (and more). Jean Tirole on why societies often resist the policy recommendations of economists (and more). Mark Thoma rounds up links on Tirole.