Edward Emory Leamer (born May 24, 1944) is a professor of economics and statistics at

UCLA The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California ...

. He is Chauncey J. Medberry Professor of Management and director of the UCLA Anderson Forecast. He attended Princeton (B.A., mathematics, 1966) and the University of Michigan (M.A., mathematics, Ph.D., economics, 1970). Leamer is the author of 4 books and over 100 articles on a range of subjects especially including applied

econometrics Econometrics is the application of statistical methods to economic data in order to give empirical content to economic relationships. M. Hashem Pesaran (1987). "Econometrics," '' The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics'', v. 2, p. 8 p. 8 ...

and quantitative

international economics International economics is concerned with the effects upon economic activity from international differences in productive resources and consumer preferences and the international institutions that affect them. It seeks to explain the patterns and ...

. Leamer was the vice presidential nominee on

Laurence Kotlikoff Laurence Jacob Kotlikoff (born January 30, 1951) is a Professor of Economics at Boston University, a William Warren Fairfield Professor at Boston University, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Research Associate of the Natio ...

's independent ticket in the 2016 US presidential election. Leamer is known amongst economists for his paper "Let's Take the Con Out of Econometrics", widely referred to as Leamer's critique, which is said to have catalyzed the implementation of more rigorous research designs in the economic sciences.

Selected publications

;Books * 1978. ''Specification Searches: Ad Hoc Inference with Nonexperimental Data'', Wiley. Chapter previe
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* 1985. ''Sources of International Comparative Advantage: Theory and Evidence'', MIT Press
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* 2006. ''Quantitative International Economics'' (with Robert M. Stern). Aldine Transaction
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* 2007. ''Handbook of Econometrics'', Elsevier
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(editor with James J. Heckman). * 2009. ''Macroeconomic Patterns and Stories'', Springer.
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;Articles * 1980. "The Leontief Paradox, Reconsidered," ''Journal of Political Economy'', 88(3), pp
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503. Reprinted in Jagdish N. Bhagwati, ed., 1987, ''International Trade: Selected Readings'', MIT Press. pp
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124. * 1983a. "Let's Take the Con Out of Econometrics," ''American Economic Review'', 73(1), pp
31-43.
* 1983b. "Reporting the Fragility of Regression Estimates," (with Herman Leonard), ''Review of Economics and Statistics,'' 65(2), pp
306-317
* 1985. "Sensitivity Analyses Would Help," ''American Economic Review'', 75(3), pp
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313. * 1995. "International Trade Theory: The Evidence," ch. 26, ''Handbook of International Economics'', v. 3, pp. 1339–1394
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* 1987. "Econometric Metaphors," in ''Advances in Econometrics'', Truman F. Bewley, ed., Cambridge v. 2, pp
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28. * 1999. "Effort, Wages and the International Division of Labor," ''Journal of Political Economy,'' Vol. 107, Number 6, Part 1. * 2001. "The Economic Geography of the Internet Age," ''Journal of International Business Studies,'' 32,4. * 2007a. "Housing ''is'' the Business Cycle," in ''Housing, Housing Finance, and Monetary Policy'', Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, pp
149-233
* 2007b. "Linking the Theory with the Data: That is the Core Problem of International Economics," ch. 67, ''Handbook of Econometrics'', v. 6A, pp 4587–4606
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* 2007c. "A Flat World, A Level Playing Field, A Small World After All, or None of the Above? A Review of Thomas L. Friedman's The World is Flat," ''Journal of Economic Literature.'' * 2008. From ''

The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics ''The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics'' (2018), 3rd ed., is a twenty-volume reference work on economics published by Palgrave Macmillan. It contains around 3,000 entries, including many classic essays from the original Inglis Palgrave Diction ...

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. * 2010. "Tantalus on the Road to Asymptopia," ''Journal of Economic Perspectives'', 24(2), pp
31-46

References

External links

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Ed Leamer on ''The Accad and Koka Report'' Podcast
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