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Forbes, yeesh. It may be trite to roll out the correlation-is-not-causation argument, but this is so incredibly blatant it turns my stomach. The author's thesi
by bradleyland 13y ago
Forbes, yeesh. It may be trite to roll out the correlation-is-not-causation argument, but this is so incredibly blatant it turns my stomach.
The author's thesis could be summarized as: The Baltic population level has declined consistently since 1992, therefore Baltic economic policies must not be as desirable as some make them out to be.
Population migration and economic policy are two astoundingly broad topics. Any attempt to link the two requires at least some analysis of each. This article contains none.
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- gruseom 13y agoThat's not fair at all. The author's points are: 1) there has been a major population decline in the Baltics; 2) the decline is staggering even by comparison to Russia, which is widely thought to have a problem with population; 3) people making claims about economic reform in the Baltics should not ignore such a major factor.
- bradleyland 13y agoPoints 1 & 2 are facts, and are not in dispute, but point 3 is a question, not a statement. "Don't ignore population growth/decline when examining economic reform." Ok, but what of it? Is anyone ignoring that? If the author believes that the population decline in the Baltics is due to the economic policy therein, then they should find ways to establish that causal relationship, not just point at a graph and say "see here".
- gruseom 13y agoYou're complaining about a causality claim that he never makes.
- acjohnson55 13y agoHe only nods his head repeatedly in its general direction.
- mjn 13y ago> Ok, but what of it? Is anyone ignoring that? Yes, just about every article that uses the Baltic countries as an economic example to emulate fails to mention this bit.