Macroeconomics is a pseudoscience, like astrology. It’s time for everyone to start pointing and jeering.https://twitter.com/hbdchick/status/845776954594938880 …
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@Noahpinion writes a great commentary on a recent defense of macro by Ricardo Reis http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.ru/2017/04/ricardo-reis-defends-macro_13.html …1 reply 1 retweet 3 likes -
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@Noahpinion that you like, or the one by Reis? I’ve read the former…1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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Seems to sum to: “Many of our practices each independently guaranteed that what we did had no empirical value;
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now we are doing some of those differently.” No argument—or even suggestion!—that resulting discipline has any empirical value.
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what do you mean by empirical value? Structural models, for example, inform real policy decisions
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The time series of the Fed dot plot shows their macro model can’t even approx predict a variable they have full control over.
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Wait, but dot plot isn't based on any model. It's just committee members' cheap talk. We don't see the predictions of their internal models.
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that’s true; but you said models “inform” their decisions (presumably via presumably their predictions).
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