> The Journal of Economic Perspectives (from the American Economic
>Association) is considering a symposium on recent developments in
>econometrics. Part of my job is to get input from a subset of
>*non--econometricians* on topics that they might actively choose to read
>about if published in the JEP. That is, this is not intended to be
>interesting to *econometricians* -- it is intended to be interesting and
>accessible to JEP readers.
Yeah, I'd like to see some consideration of the actual achievements of 'metrics. What has it told us that other approaches couldn't? Is there such a thing as definitive proof in the field, or do researchers end up just proving what they "knew" from the outset?
Doug