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Economists Want Their Discipline To Be A Science, And They Have Nailed Down A Few Precepts, But Many Of Their Debates Are Still Clouded By Ideology.

Crazy Ideas Sometimes Work, And The Technological Society That We Have Is Built On A Foundation Of Those Crazy Ideas That Work.

One Of The Problems With Posing A 'bold New Plan' Is That You Can't Just Extrapolate From Previous Plans.

The Scientific Method Is The Ultimate Elegant Explanation. It Is The Ultimate Foundation For Anything Worthy Of The Name "explanation". It Makes No Sense To Talk About Explanations Without Having A Process For Deciding Which Are Right And Which Are Wrong, And In A Broad Sense That Is What The Scientific Method Is About. All Of The Other Wonderful Explanations Celebrated Here Owe Their Origin And Credibility To The Process By Which They Are Verified-the Scientific Method.

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