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Economics journals have made large datasets and heavy statistics the price of making any causal claim at all, which has squeezed qualitative economic history out of the field.

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peer review How science checks itself, and the case that the checking mostly does not work.

metascience Research about research: whether published findings hold up, and what makes a field more or less reliable.

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  1. Anton Howes Historian of innovation
    Over the past few decades, journal editors and peer-reviewers have increasingly insisted that papers must present large datasets that have been treated using complex statistical methods in order to make even the mildest claims about what caused what.

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