tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31670799.post2623585024741475997..comments2023-11-02T09:44:15.693-04:00Comments on The Center for College Affordability and Productivity: Lies, Lies, and Damned LiesCenter for College Affordability and Productivityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18041956958538598371noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31670799.post-45765619133360277952010-05-27T11:52:15.393-04:002010-05-27T11:52:15.393-04:00I think its fair to say that a lot of historians a...I think its fair to say that a lot of historians and others in humanities departments (and sociologists) do ideological "research." Their research is about as objective as a think tank's, maybe worse.<br /><br />But most economists are not doing ideological research. There is some ideology (including at CCAP), but people like Paul Krugman and Yoram Bauman are not trying to "destroy capitalism" when they warn about climate change.<br /><br />Maybe what I'm trying to say is that, for instance, there is a reason the fresh-water school and salt-water schools in economist exist, and that they both had predictable responses to the stimulus package. But that isn't proof that one side is doing misleading or unscientific research for a political agenda. I think the Real Business Cycle people really believe in what most of us in Cambridge consider total crap. And I know a lot of people in Chicago feel the same way about Keynsian models.Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10230344931186858123noreply@blogger.com