By KEVIN A. CLARKE AND DAVID M. PRIMO/ Published: March 30, 2012
HOW scientific are the social sciences?
Economists, political scientists and sociologists have long suffered
from an academic inferiority complex: physics envy. They often feel that
their disciplines should be on a par with the “real” sciences and
self-consciously model their work on them, using language (“theory,”
“experiment,” “law”) evocative of physics and che...
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