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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 8h \ on: Bitcoin is ‘not an asset’ and has ‘no intrinsic value,’ bitcoin
If they were my investment advisor I'd write a snarky email to dump them haha
Yeah I don't think I mean for the categories to have any inherent value other than as a convenience for searching stuff up.
It is kinda fun though to see what books get grouped together, and especially the prevalence or non prevalence of bitcoin
Would it be fair to say that the balance should be sought in the aggregate, not in the individual?
No, I don't think that's preferrable. That just leads to pointless disagreements based on both sides having an inaccurate understanding
Is there a guide? Understanding academic economists for Dummies?
Good idea. I might make a post about this for Pleb Economist. If I had to give a short answer, I'd probably focus on:
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Academic economics is better at understanding the past than predicting the future
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Academic economics is better at highlighting tradeoffs than making decisions
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Many academic economists make claims that go way beyond what's justified by the evidence, so take what they say with a grain of salt.
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Even when they don't, other people use their research to make irresponsible claims. It's an unfortunate aspect of the profession that the economists themselves have little control over.
Ah, nice. I think my favorite pasta shape is Campanelle, kinda like Fusilli. Probably because it has a lot of surface area to hold sauce with.
I'm not sure what my favorite sauces or toppings are though.
Yeah, he has pinged me on a few of his reviews to include in the directory, which I'm happy to oblige.
My intention isn't to limit my directory to ~BooksAndArticles. But on the practical side, I need to source the reviews from other compiled lists, since I don't have the capacity to iterate through every SN item to see if it's a review or not.
These updates are handy though, I can use them to update the list, even if it's not the complete set.
I'm an academic economist. Follow my latest research here: https://stacker.news/SimpleStacker#research-in-public
It's open for anyone to see and review, live, as I work on it. Hopefully it provides a transparent view on what economics research is, what it isn't, and what's valuable about it, and what's not.
I can't really comment much on the Duflo/Banerjee situation. I know they have a good reputation in the profession, but I personally am not that familiar with their work. I think the general public is either too trusting or too distrustful of academic economists. Few people seem to strike the right balance, but I don't blame them, since knowing what to trust and what not to requires a bit of insider understanding as to how the profession operates.
42 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker 20h \ parent \ on: Economics and the Infantilization of Culture econ
I've focused heavily on the technical side, acting more like a physics professor, because that's the kind of method that spoke to me more. But I think I should embrace the soft humanities of economics more haha. It'll be more fun for the students and probably more useful for 90% of them
My daughter helped me
git push changes on my home machine to the cloud so I could git pull to my laptop from the coffee shop I'm at.All were posted after but does it include all the reviews posted afterwards? Or are some not in that list