Economist, author of several books, including The Three Languages of Politics and Specialization and Trade. https://xitter.cf/t.co/6Ifgdwf15K
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I looked at the box score of the last playoff game. The White Sox put the ball in play 9 times. 3 hits, 6 outs. the other 21 outs were strikeouts. MLB is turning into girls' softball.
On health care in America, for the Boyd institute boydinstitute.org/p/health-c… includes some illuminating charts
The AI panic reminds me of the Y2K panic back in the day. At least that one had a definite date when people could move on to something else.
From the War on Iran to the Crisis of the American Republic open.substack.com/pub/niallf…
From the War on Iran to the Crisis of the American Republic open.substack.com/pub/niallf… an insightful and pessimistic tour d'horizon from @nfergus among the UATX students that appear are two who were in my class in the Jan-March term
playswingstate.com/ Tim Kane's game to illustrate electoral politics. I played and lost, but it's a cool app
Arnold Kling retweeted
A dominant paradigm these days in economics is “neo-institutionalism.”
Pushed for decades by Douglass North (1920–2015; Nobel 1993) and now the orthodoxy at the World Bank.
It says, like a recipe book, “Add institutions and stir.” Institutions such as sharecropping or land reform or modern courts are seen as causal.
Much of the evidence is historical. Much of it is mistaken.
My latest column for @folha....
Moltbook: at the very minimum, it is an entertaining science fiction story being written incredibly quickly. At the maximum, ??? @moltbook
"if somebody put a gun to my head and said, “define technology,” what would I say? And the only answer I could come up with that really satisfied me was that it’s something in our own heads. " (1)
Invisible Wealth. Of 10 economists interviewed, 4 had won Nobels. Now it's up to 6. A remarkable book, if I may say so myself (3)
Find it here: amazon.com/Invisible-Wealth-…
I created this in just a few hours, using Replit, without having to write any code myself. econmuseum.replit.app/
Instead of having a panic about students cheating with AI see how you can teach using AI. soccode.vercel.app/ a prototype seminar pick the chapter on game theory make sure to ask a question and see the responses
Transforming Education: AI-Powered Seminar Learning at Scale, by @KlingBlog open.substack.com/pub/arnold…
Tonight at 6 PM New York time, Moses Sternstein and I are planning to go on substack live. He wants to talk about Warren Buffett’s idea of “import certificates”and I want to talk about financial markets from the perspective that I call “total paranoia.”
Concepts for a New Economics: Complexity, by @KlingBlog open.substack.com/pub/arnold…