Written April 19, 2019 TL;DR This is a normative statement: “Economists ought not to believe their models are positive.” The first chapter of my first AP Microeconomics class in senior year of high school made it a point to differentiate positive and normative statements. A positive statement is one that…

Written January 31, 2019 TL;DR Could researchers use streaming to maximize transparency? It’s a Wednesday afternoon. I am watching a video essay from Anthony Fantano, the “Internet’s Busiest Music Nerd”, in which he goes through an academic data science paper exploring measures by which to determine the angriest Death Grips…

a.k.a. “The Case for a Negative Discount Rate in Discussing the Economic Value of the Environment” Written January 7, 2019 TL;DR Future generations will most likely reap more utility and produce more things than the people of today, and therefore maintaining the environment becomes increasingly valuable over time. Economics is…

Written November 19, 2018 This week in my Economics of Development course, we have turned our focus to view development as a “complex adaptive system“. …