Conceptual Anomalies in Economics and Statistics: Lessons from the Social Experiment Book

Preface; Introduction;
Part I. Statistical Logics:
1. J. S. Mill and some philosophical underpinnings of controlled experimentation;
2. R. A. Fisher, randomization, and controlled experimentation;
3. Some special difficulties of controlled social experiments;
4. Hume's problem of induction in modern statistical inference and controlled experimentation;
Part II. Economic Logics:
5. Problems with a rationalist account of classical mechanics;
6. Microeconomics striving to be a classical-mechanics-like science;
7. The income maintenance experiments: microeconomic science or scientism?;
8. Microeconomics striving to be deontology; Conclusion; Appendix; References; Symbols and abbreviations; Index.