While searching my computer for a review of Wynne Godley's Monetary Economics by Lance Taylor titled 'The Foxy Hedgehog', I came across this article I wrote waaay back in 2001 as an undergrad for the Student Economic Review. Yes, I was a nerd back then, too. The editor of the Student Economic Review that year was one Ronan Lyons, who has, sadly, faded into complete obscurity.

Anyway, here's the little essay on econometric methodology. It goes a bit mad on the quotes, but you'll get the idea. The article won best original essay that year. Ten years ago (jaysus).

3 Responses to “Blast from the past: Hedgehog Logic-the Problems of Econometrics Today”

1. Brian O' Hanlon

   13/06/2011 at 10:32 pm

   Ten years ago. That is nothing. I was writing atrocious essays up to twenty years ago now. I listened to an 'Arts Tonight' documentary about Gil Scott-Heron this evening, and learned that he was moving to 'electronic' music towards the end of his life. I have to confess, his story reminded me a little bit of my own. I am learning about Harvard method of referencing and reading instruction manuals about dissertation technique this summer. It's the people you hang around with you see. They never told me about this stuff. Too much time in the past two decades spent attending too many mad parties.

   13th of June at this link,

   http://www.rte.ie/radio1/podcast/podcast_artstonight.xml

   (Click on my name above to read the blog entry, 'Right Angle', which is a reflection upon the methods of teaching higher mathematics in north Kerry in the early 1990s)

2. Brian O' Hanlon

   13/06/2011 at 10:42 pm

   I noticed Larry Summers in your list of references. I don't think I have listened to the last two podcasts here,

   http://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/financial-markets-audio/id341651121

   But they might be worth checking out.

3. Brian O' Hanlon

   15/06/2011 at 6:12 pm

   I commented this link before, but it must have got lost in the transmission.

   Nick Carr offered an excerpt from his book 'The Shallows' recently on this blog, in which he also gave a link to an old paper about IBM data punch cards, and how the 1960s counter cultural movement in the United States protested so strongly about the collection of data about people and the kind of controlling idea it represented.

   http://design.osu.edu/carlson/history/PDFs/lubar-hollerith.pdf