ECONOMY

584 voting and the macroeconomy
from severe problems of projection and rationalization, and for those reasons are
viewed by many with profound skepticism. Devising models that bring forwardlooking,
competency models to macroeconomic data with statistical power poses one
of the greatest challenges to future research.
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