IVY LEAGUE FISKING
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James Joyner | Monday, December 8, 2003 |
Matthew Yglesias puts his Harvard education to good use in this post:
A Humean analysis of Andy Card’s remarks regarding steel protectionism. I would suggest, however, that even if we do not accept counterfactual analyses of causation as a general matter, that the relevant issue here is the counterfactual one (which, according to taste, may or may not be equivalent to the causal question). In other words, are we to believe that if the EU and Japan had not threatened retaliatory action that Bush would have reversed course on steel?
About the Author: James Joyner is the publisher of Outside the Beltway and the managing editor of the Atlantic Council. He's a former Army officer, Desert Storm vet, and college professor with a PhD in political science from The University of Alabama. He lives just outside the Beltway in Alexandria, Virginia with his wife and infant daughter.
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