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Econ Autodidactic: Rani Issac's "The Philanthropist": An Odd Little Text
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Dunning–Kruger in full effect. Sunday, August 2, 2015. Rani Issac's "The Philanthropist": An Odd Little Text. Through some machinations, the main character is able to make some changes and release funds out to the world - basically she dissolves her wealth and the family foundation that was part of how she controlled so much capital. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. GDP: A Brief but Affectionate History - Good history, short on the alternatives. I was at the store today, look...
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Econ Autodidactic: This Strange Machine: The One Percent and the Zero-Sum Economy
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Dunning–Kruger in full effect. Thursday, August 6, 2015. This Strange Machine: The One Percent and the Zero-Sum Economy. I know Kung Fu. So the last will be first and the first last, for the called are many and the chosen ones are few. I still remember a lot of my test scores. I did pretty well, especially considering that I never really prepared for any of them. I always did well at standardized test, so why was there a need to prep for anything. But it was still celebrated. I remember once my high ...
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Econ Autodidactic: The Making of a Manager
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Dunning–Kruger in full effect. Tuesday, July 28, 2015. The Making of a Manager. I sometimes think of essays I want to write, and bounce them around in my head a bit, but I never actually get down to writing them, because who has the time to write an essay for fun with no possibility of compensation. One of the prompts I wrote to myself was “manager”. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. GDP: A Brief but Affectionate History - Good history, short on the alternatives. I was at the ...
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Econ Autodidactic: Scrooge McDuck and Conceptions of Money: A Page-Turning Attempt at an Synthetic Understanding
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Dunning–Kruger in full effect. Tuesday, August 4, 2015. Scrooge McDuck and Conceptions of Money: A Page-Turning Attempt at an Synthetic Understanding. I think that people’s conceptions of money are very important. I say this not as some groundbreaking understanding, but it seems to have some sort of play on the political visions you have of what is good and moral and proper. I can’t argue for causation here, but I think it matters. That’s an hour on my feet! But it seems that all three classes of labor h...
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Econ Autodidactic: GDP: A Brief but Affectionate History -- Good history, short on the alternatives.
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Dunning–Kruger in full effect. Monday, April 21, 2014. GDP: A Brief but Affectionate History - Good history, short on the alternatives. I read Stiglitz and Sen’s “Mismeasuring. Our Lives” a while back, and I bought their arguments that GDP was itself defective and overly reductive and measured some of the wrong things. They proposed a dashboard of stats that would better measure wellbeing than GDP does. Coyle does not think this is necessary. After going through a history of GDP, she concluded:. By her w...
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Econ Autodidactic: On not Selling out: Getting my MBA
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Dunning–Kruger in full effect. Thursday, May 1, 2014. On not Selling out: Getting my MBA. I have a confession to make. The name of this blog is actually a misnomer. I’ll get to that. First some personal history. I started studying economics and finance seriously after I lost my job in late 2008. I had just started a sales job in September of that year. I was in training when the magic weekend happened. I went to McDonalds and tried to figure out what went on. But it was 2008, and being without a job or a...
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Econ Autodidactic: Quick thought on: A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present by Howard Zinn
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Dunning–Kruger in full effect. Thursday, April 10, 2014. Quick thought on: A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present by Howard Zinn. Reading this book can be a chore. It takes some time, and is kind of dense. But here's the plus side. There's never a wrong time to read this book. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. GDP: A Brief but Affectionate History - Good history, short on the alternatives. Post-Scarcity Thinking: Manu Saadia's "Trekonomics". Kingsford is Barb...
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Econ Autodidactic: A skeptical look at Bitcoin.
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Dunning–Kruger in full effect. Friday, November 8, 2013. A skeptical look at Bitcoin. So, as an inhabitant of econ twitter, I have seen the conversation around bitcoin. I am intrigued, naturally, because it is so polarizing. Either it is the future of trade, or it is something to be mocked. I legitimately don’t know what he future will be, on this or any other topic. I am pretty sure that I will have a beer soon, but that is just a highly probabilistic way of looking at it. I see money not for a lump of ...
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The Crisis & Economics, Part 2: The EMH-Twist | Unlearning Economics
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Musings on the Current State of Economics. Laquo; The Crisis and Economics, Part 1: The Boom and The Bust. Pieria: Capital in Piketty’s ‘Capital’. The Crisis and Economics, Part 2: The EMH-Twist. This is part 2 in my series on why and how the 2008 financial crisis is relevant to economics. The first instalment. Argument #2: “. 8220;The EMH claims that crises are unpredictable, so the fact that economists didn’t predict the crisis is not a problem for economics at all.”. Crises are unpredictable does not ...
