[lbo-talk] Re: Ralph Nader, Suicide Bomber

[John Adams]

On Wednesday, May 5, 2004, at 02:24 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:

> Who knows? How else can you do economics? Experimentation is 
> impossible.

On the macro level, maybe, but on the micro level, what exactly do you 
think all those giant data warehouses full of point-of-sale data are? 
Those are the data repositories of the biggest microeconomic 
experiments ever done, performed by people who really, really want 
reliable results.

All the best,

	John A