Empirics

The notion of retaining empirics may seem paradoxical when the tenets of holism and the requirements of empirics are scrutinized.

At one time, this might have been rationalized by the paucity of empirics in the field or its weak theoretical foundations.

This does not suggest that these determinants are not important in the growth empirics, but that they have a less important role than the ones we identify as "strongly" robust.