He also helped develop a rigorous body of theory and evidence that helps us understand why pleasant political daydreams often create actual social nightmares.
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He has published over 70 theoretical empirical and policy papers on international macroeconomic issues and co-authored the books Political Cycles: Theory and Evidence and Bailouts or Bail-ins?
As I perused Anarchy and the Law, I reflected on the fact that most of the popular and plausible justifications for government are undermined by theory and evidence.
Another problem is the Ehrlichs' attitude to theory and evidence.
As it always is when theory and empirical evidence point in the same direction.
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But some seriously logical economic theory and empirical evidence suggest that this set of options is much too bleak.
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Modern economic theory and empirical evidence including a series of papers by one of us (Hassett) and Alan Auerbach of the University of California, Berkeley show that raising taxes on dividends at the individual level increases the cost of equity capital and lowers asset prices, harming consumers while hindering firms' ability to hire workers.
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Professor Neumark summarized some of their findings in a column published in the Wall Street Journal last summer, and he discusses the basic economic theory (and the evidence) in a short, accessible 2006 Policy Study for the Show-Me Institute.
The fox keeps an open mind, adjusts theory to evidence and is wary of ideology.
The need-for-neurons theory is controversial and the evidence behind it circumstantial, based as it is solely on animal studies.
Ethnohistorical research combines early documentary sources as well as archaeology, linguistics, and social theory with biogeographical evidence of the earliest cultures.
X-ray pulsar being spun up, and the theory rested on titbits of circumstantial evidence.
Ferrara couldn't prove otherwise because he wasn't able to isolate the protein and lacked enough evidence to publish his theory.
That evidence could also support the theory that Martin and Zimmerman fought.
The association said police did not find evidence to support the charity's theory and a report by a vet suggested that the injuries were only "consistent" with those which might have been caught in a trap.
And nearly a third of respondents said they had concerns about a purported link between vaccines and autism despite scientific evidence debunking this theory.
Faked and tampered data and evidence has arisen in favor of the politically correct theory.
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An expert group set up to investigate claims the MMR vaccine was linked to autism and inflammatory bowel disease found no evidence to support the theory.
But substantiating such a theory will require more information about prehistoric climate and agriculture, and more archaeological evidence.
In a scathing report, he concluded that investigators in the Willingham case had no scientific basis for claiming that the fire was arson, ignored evidence that contradicted their theory, had no comprehension of flashover and fire dynamics, relied on discredited folklore, and failed to eliminate potential accidental or alternative causes of the fire.
Zabara built evidence to support his new theory, working first with lab animals and then inducing seizures in dogs.
Alpha has always been a slippery concept: in theory there should not be much of it about and academics have struggled to find evidence that the industry consistently realises it for clients.
Take a theory which predicts that a certain thing will happen if real wages rise and look for evidence of that occurrence.
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But although their article documents a correlation of privatisation and mortality at the country level, it provides no evidence for their theory that privatisation causes job loss.
In theory the IRScould later audit the "neutral" folks and assess a tax, but there's little evidence this happened.
At a recent meeting of the International Society for Developmental Neuroscience in Sydney, Dr McGrath and Alan Mackay-Sim, of Griffith University, Brisbane, presented strong evidence for this theory.
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