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Andrew M. Fischer

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Prof at @issnl Chair of @DevandChg #devecon #demography #socialpolicy #Tibet western #China. Wrote #povertyasideology & other stuff.
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Andrew M. Fischer @AndrewM_Fischer
Politics is like bad breath… you only smell it on others.
Jason Furman Verified account @jasonfurman Oct 19
The fatal challenge to heterodox economics is that there isn't actually orthodox economics.

Just take a few recent Nobels: behavioral, information failure, institutions, bubbles, financial fragility, labor monopsony (sort of), Schumpeterian creative destruction, etc.

Not to mention RCTs which are emblematic of how much economic research is empirical and only lightly if at all structural.

The real difference is methods. Heterodox economics is an avowedly political project not a social scientific effort to better understand the world. And I have nothing against political projects just shouldn't confuse the two.
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