by Craig Bel -. When the Albany State Great Dane football team takes the field Saturday at Alfred, the Danes will pit the number one rushing team in the nation (Division HI) against the number one defense. Lust year, in the first meeting between the two teams, Albany eked out a 7-6 win. After the game there werea lot of alibis offered by the visitors, including poor officiating, bad weather, an...

This research project was supported by Vetenskapsradet, Grant 439-2014-38, PI: Ellen Lust, University of Gotneburg, Sweden; Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation to Academy Fellow Staffan I. Lindberg, 2018.0144, V-Dem Institute, Gothenburg, 2018-01614, Anna Luhrmann, Uni- versity Sweden.

During the 1960’s, many as was firmly supported by the historical founders of econometrics, had hoped that econometrics would provide a sound scientific foundation for econometrics in which each element of specification would be determined primarily on the basis of economic theory. However, due to misusing of econometrics and also wide usage of the so called cookbook econometrics, many research...