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Age of Invention: Joel Mokyr's Nobel

Anton Howes · 13 Oct 2025 · ageofinvention.xyz ↗

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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.

    Their wordsOver 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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