Fabio Rojas wrote:
What are the big unsolved puzzles of economic empirical research?
1) Why do people live so much longer today than they used to?
Granted technological change and increased wealth, why is this such
a mystery?
Yes, we should expect that richer people would want to spend more
I would absolutely love to read a survey of economists asking them
what the biggest puzzles are. Say make a list of 100 puzzles and ask
a few hundred economists to rank their top 10 or 20. A paper describing
such results would surely get cited regularly over the next century
as luminaries try
At 3:23 PM -0400 10/24/00, Robin Hanson wrote:
Fabio wrote:
What are the big unsolved puzzles of economic empirical research?
What economic phenoma seem pretty darn important, but have not
been adequately explained by current economic theories?
1) Why do people live so much longer today than
