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Bitcoin | Urban Future (2.1)
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Urban Future (2.1). Views from the decopunk delta. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. June 16, 2016. The 21 Inc Bitcoin Computer is an engine for the next phase of the Internet. June 13, 2016. 21 is now open source. https:/ t.co/Jimjc4lQIz. Mdash; 21 (@21) June 11, 2016. Continue reading →. May 20, 2016. In theory, distributed autonomous organizations (of which the DAO is one of the first examples) are a hardcoded solution to the age-old principal-agent problem. May 6, 2016. I believed t...
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August 2014 – Orderstatistic
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Economics, chess and anything else on my mind. August 14, 2014. More Thoughts on the Welfare Consequences of Stimulus Spending. Noah Smith has a short post. Questioning the reasoning of an earlier post of mine about stimulus spending. He includes a short numerical example which I reproduce below. Here’s Noah:. In this case, the net social benefit of spending $100 building the bridge is $90 $110 – $100 = $100. And the net social benefit of spending $100 on a tax rebate is $110 – $100 = $10. Iv) In OPTION ...
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China | Urban Future (2.1)
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Urban Future (2.1). Views from the decopunk delta. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. June 30, 2016. Even skeptics (such as this blog) can note the importance of the discussion initiated here. Soviet Union had cinema, the PRC has the Internet. I personally think that the international audience still largely underestimate the importance of what China has achieved policy-wise for the global landscape of Internet. Concepts like digital sovereignty. June 17, 2016. And global civil war. Dunhu...
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October 2014 – Orderstatistic
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Economics, chess and anything else on my mind. October 27, 2014. The Lure of Capital Taxation. The taxation of capital income corporate profits, capital gains, interest, dividends, etc. has always been attractive to both politicians and to economists. Economists are drawn to capital income taxation not because it is a good idea many (most? In the immediate wake of the higher tax, standard theory would predict that basically nothing would happen to production or employment (? The tension between long run ...
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Warren Buffet: Fighting Income Inequality with the EITC – Orderstatistic
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Economics, chess and anything else on my mind. May 26, 2015. Warren Buffet: Fighting Income Inequality with the EITC. Warren Buffet’s article in the Wall Street Journal. Reminds me of some posts. On fighting income inequality. His article contains a lot of wisdom. Some excerpts:. He writes that an expansion of the minimum wage to 15 dollars per hour. I agree entirely and so would Milton Friedman. There should be widespread publicity that workers can receive free and convenient filing help. An annual ...
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September 2014 – Orderstatistic
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Economics, chess and anything else on my mind. September 10, 2014. Feels Like it Was Yesterday. September 3, 2014. End of an Era. Judit typically played in the general tournaments she actually never competed for the women’s world championship. Over her career, she has defeated a slew of famous players including Magnus Carlsen (the current world #1 and current chess champion), Viswanathan Anand (the previous world #1), Anatoly Karpov, Boris Spassky, the list goes on and on. [1]. Another fascinating aspect...
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Is Big Data the answer to all our problems? – Orderstatistic
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Economics, chess and anything else on my mind. August 2, 2015. Is Big Data the answer to all our problems? Noah Smith recently commented. On a Malcom Gladwell talk. In which he (Gladwell) expressed doubts about the promise of Big Data. When people use the term Big Data. Be better. (OK, there is the Snowden issue and government invasions of privacy more generally but let’s leave those problems aside I don’t think that kind of intrusive survelance is what either Gladwell or Noah has in mind). Very interest...
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Can Anyone Spare $150 billion? – Orderstatistic
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Economics, chess and anything else on my mind. May 13, 2014. Can Anyone Spare $150 billion? The trade-off between equality and efficiency mentioned in Sargent’s 2007 Berkelee commencement address. Generated a surprising amount of commentary online (surprising to me anyway). Much of the online posts were directed at dispelling the existence of this trade-off. Matt Yglesias described it as one of the big myths of our time. Before I begin, let me mention a few facts so we can appreciate the issue a bit.
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Needed: Meaningful Progress on Income Inequality – Orderstatistic
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Economics, chess and anything else on my mind. March 14, 2014. Needed: Meaningful Progress on Income Inequality. Income inequality in the United States has been rising for decades. As I’m sure many of you know, the best source for data on income inequality is Piketty and Saez. The pictures below (which I’m shamelessly stealing from Piketty and Saez) give you a pretty good sense of the problem. [1]. I submit to you that this state of affairs is simply unacceptable. This current degree of income inequa...
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