An Interest In:
Web News this Week
- April 4, 2024
- April 3, 2024
- April 2, 2024
- April 1, 2024
- March 31, 2024
- March 30, 2024
- March 29, 2024
June 17, 2014 03:45 am PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/RBZ5DzBYKow/econobollocks-three-ways-that.html
Econobollocks: three ways that economic figures are misused inpolitics
Financial Times economist Tim Harford writes about how "three sensible propositions from economics have somehow been crumpled into a mess of public relations and politics" -- how the misleading precision of economic forecasts can be used to paper over purely political decisions, making them seem to be objectively true: Read the rest
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/RBZ5DzBYKow/econobollocks-three-ways-that.html
Share this article:
Tweet
View Full Article