The Observational/RCT Correlation Bryan Caplan By Bryan Caplan, May 11 2016 SHARE POST: What’s the correlation between results from observational studies and results from randomized controlled trials? Medicine’s the obvious place to start, but if you know of any research on any topic that addresses this question, please share.
May 11 2016 Economic History Was Hawtrey more Keynesian than Keynes? Scott Sumner Ralph Hawtrey has always been in the shadow of Keynes, but might well have been the superior macroeconomist. I think you could also argue that Hawtrey's model of macroeconomics was more "Keynesian" than the General Theory, in the sense of being closer to what economists of the 1990s and early 2000s meant by the term "K... 2 Read More
May 11 2016 Economic and Political Philosophy David Bowie, Bourgeois Hero? Alberto Mingardi A book review by Samuel Goldman on The American Conservative alerted me to "We Can Be Heroes: The Radical Individualism of David Bowie" by Robert Dean Lurie, a short e-book whose title is self-explanatory. I shall confess I wasn't much of a Bowie fan before he passed away a few months ago. But when I listened to his... 3 Read More
May 11 2016 Economic Methods The Observational/RCT Correlation Bryan Caplan What's the correlation between results from observational studies and results from randomized controlled trials? Medicine's the obvious place to start, but if you know of any research on any topic that addresses this question, please share. 12 Read More