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SUTCH: Lesson Learned from Replicating Piketty — How Not To Do Economic History

[NOTE: This post refers to the article “The One Percent across Two Centuries: A Replication of Thomas Piketty’s Data on the Concentration of Wealth in the United States” by Richard Sutch. It appears in the current issue of the journal Social…

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The Solution to the Replication Crisis is…Capitalism?

[From the article “The Solution to Science’s Replication Crisis” by BRUCE KNUTSEN, posted at arxiv.org] “The solution to science’s replication crisis is a new ecosystem in which scientists sell what they learn from their research. In each pairwise transaction, the…

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