Conceptual anomalies in economics and statistics : lessons from the social experiment

This book explores anomalies in the conceptual basis of social control experiments and in the foundation of statistics and economics. Drawing upon several examples, the author argues that together such anomalies prevent microeconomics and statistics from providing a coherent understanding of human social behavior on par with the physical sciences. He concludes that social control experiments are a frequently overrated tool for social policy improvements. This book explores anomalies in the conceptual basis of such experiments and in the foundations of statistics and economics more generally. Drawing upon several examples, the author argues that methodological anomalies prevent microeconomics and statistics from explaining human social behaviour as coherently as the physical sciences explain nature. Statistical Logics -- J. S. Mill And Some Philosophical Underpinnings Of Controlled Experimentation Leland Gerson Neuberg. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 337-344.