What Henry Farrell thinks about metascience

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Professor of international affairs at Johns Hopkins SAIS and co-author, with Abraham Newman, of Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy.

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   Our readingStandard social-science approaches that seek long-term regularities become less useful during periods of systemic transition, until the system stabilizes again.

   Their wordsthe value of standard social science approaches, which attempt to discover long term regularities, is likely to depreciate in relative terms until the system settles down again.

   ↗International relations has a problem with the futureprogrammablemutter.com 2nd of 3 in this piece