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Published · transcript-backedLikes The Pretense of Knowledge.
5 Jun 2019 Conversations with Tyler Russ Roberts on Life as an Economics Educator
“I’m a big fan of “The Pretense of Knowledge,” his Nobel Prize acceptance speech.”
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- 5 Jun 2019
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…As a Hayekian, how can we do science better? I think that’s a trick question. Hayek, of course, was concerned with scientism, the illusion that what we’re doing was scientific. I’m a big fan of “The Pretense of Knowledge,” his Nobel Prize acceptance speech. But not in the social sciences. Actual hard science — how can we, as a society, have a higher rate of scientific advance? You get to change things.…
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