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One amusing feature of math classes at the master's level or above is that they almost take pride in not motivating the subject in external terms. For example, here's a
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Ok, my own answer to @JSEllenberg's question.Here are some important statements that come up in economics:"Nice estimators are consistent even in complicated models.""Nice financial markets are informationally efficient.&
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Was grateful to share at an #ASSA2021 session today a bit on what I've learned in teaching an undergraduate course on the Economics of Networks.A short thread to serve as
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A polite, scathing, and comprehensive reply by @jasndoc and coauthors to the "ergodicity economics" of @ole_b_peters.@NaturePhysics erred in not finding a referee who would ask these basic questions of the
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In this issue of Econometrica:"Targeting Interventions in Networks"We take an old question: "Whose incentives matter most for aggregate outcomes in a network game?" and give some new answers and a
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A short thread on something slightly scary (but not as scary as it looks). There's a prediction market platform, @FTX_Official, that seems to have way more liquidity than @PredictIt and
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"Reductionist" (i.e., most economic) theories of collective action explain acts like voting by individual incentives, perhaps including "social" phenomena via payoff terms like social pressure or warm glow.A short thread
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A small personal story behind this. When I was 19, I read Freakonomics, and like many economists who came of age then, it had a big impact on me.The Freakonomics
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