Must-Read: There are, I think, six things that Paul Romer is objecting to, all gathered together under the portmanteau of “mathiness”: Claiming that, as a matter of methodology, “good science” requires assumptions that bake my politics into the cake. Claiming that a theory is in some sense “confirmed” when in fact it makes no claims … Continue reading Must-Read: Simon Wren-Lewis: Paul Romer and Microfoundations