The fragility of a discipline when a model has monopoly status

David M. Levy and Sandra Peart ()

The Review of Austrian Economics, 2006, vol. 19, issue 2, pages 125-136

Abstract: We consider the consequences of a scientific literature with only one model of an important phenomenon. The falsification of the model would mean falsification of the science. Scientists who would prefer not to have their discipline falsified will be tempted to find ad hoc explanations to excuse the failure. To test this hypothesis we propose a study of the economic forecasts of the comparative Soviet and American growth rates in the years before a public choice model of central planning was a viable alternative to the public interest model. Copyright Springer Science + Business Media, Inc. 2006

Keywords: Central planning; Economic forecasts; Preferences over estimates; Robust political economy (search for similar items in EconPapers)

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