This paper argues that the field of econometrics divides into camps of sinners and preachers. Specifically, I look at two sins condemned by the preachers: the making of causal background assumptions when identifying parameters for estimation and the estimation of parameters that have no or little theoretical significance. I argue that practitioners in the natural experiments literature happily ...

the book mazamir is attributed to prophet david (as) and is full of metaphors about god, human being, sins, believers and unbelievers. although some parts of this book has not addressed and described the god in the way he deserves, it could be said that its metaphors are compatible and similar to those in holy quran in form and content. comparing the god to a shelter and the sinners to unfruitf...

Old World cover well-documented events, and to European readers the greatest interest lies in the essays-about a third of the total here presented-that deal with the emergence of ophthalmology in the United States during the second half of the last century. As elsewhere, saints and sinners-generally colourful-pass across the stage; and tragedy too, as shown by the essay on Homberger. ARNOLD SORSBY