--- Robin Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Social science
would be vastly easier than economists make it out to be if we could
usually just ask people why they do things. But economists are generally
skeptical of this approach,
Social science does have a great advantage over
I am not too familiar with the MVT and would like to know more.
From what I gather, this theorem says that the political parties should
both move towards the center of the liberal/conservative dichotomy.
Seems logical enough. Is this right?
If so, then what explains the polarization that
Armchairers,
You might want to check out the extensive literature on so-called direct
techniques such as contingent valuation and conjoint analysis that is used
in environmental economics to elicit quantitative estimates of
willingness-to-pay for non-market, non-use goods. Quantitative results
