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From the '70s to the early '90s the Clark generally went to home run hitting theorists, but the last couple have gone to empirical labor economists whose reputations have been built not on a couple of thrilling papers but from an accumulation of careful, data-intensive research.
The idea of direct payments needs empirical testing before it can be embraced with confidence, admits Ferraro.
The line of argument seems to be that since hypotheses in academic economics have not been confirmed means that the same would be true for all fields whether theoretical or experimental, and therefore fields that rest on empirical evidence must be castles in the sky.
The second part is empirical and discusses various welfare aspects of selecting discount levels for First-Class Mail in the United States.
First to explicate the implicit logic in the Republican Congress' push to eliminate all inheritance taxes (see Allen, 7/12/99), Chatterbox followed up with empirical evidence in support of Allen's hypothesis that, consistent with economic theory and the human distaste for the tax collector, high estate taxes are positively correlated with low death rates, and, conversely, low estate taxes, such as the GOP seeks, are correlated with high death rates (see Plotz, 7/19/99).