Khoth comments on Politics Discussion Thread September 2012 - Less Wrong

-1 Post author: Multiheaded 05 September 2012 11:27AM

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Comment author: Khoth 05 September 2012 03:29:09PM 19 points [-]

Checkable test: When the 40-hour work week was instated, is this what happened?

Comment author: Rain 05 September 2012 06:56:48PM *  16 points [-]

Alternative check: When France moved to the 35-hour work week (12 years ago), what happened?

Comment author: [deleted] 05 September 2012 10:12:41PM 2 points [-]

This. I'm not an expert in economics, but much of what little I've seen is maths based on assumptions strongly reminiscent of assuming that a fluid has zero viscosity, with very little comparisons of theoretical predictions with empirical data.