Empirical vs. Theoretical Economics
Jeff and I have been hashing this out lately.
Boettke (my “uncle” in Austrian Economics - studied with Roy Cordato) says:
I share the following opinion with the theorists at MIT: “Empirical economics is fine for exploring things that have already happened.” But for questions of what could happen, or for questions of what might be ideal […]
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