Traditionally, evidence in economics has been seen in the context of theory choice. Much of recent methodological … debate on the role of evidence has turned on the recognition that the status and role of evidence is somewhat more involved … evidence in economics is to approach the question from the perspective of applied economics. …

, however, challenged by evidence about who is affected by international debt, how contracts are actually made and followed, the … evidence within economics, and to point towards more adequate alternatives. …

, in the difficulty of obtaining what is viewed as 'hard' evidence in support of some of the central claims. For example … only kind of evidence accepted by much of the profession is the testing of econometric hypotheses generated from formal … models. The sort of evidence found in persuasive sources such as DeLong's 'Cornucopia' consists of historical examples and …