Anything that helps the world understand what economists do and economics is about.
What can we say for sure about Piketty’s “findings’’?
Or, how a market believer and market skeptic disagree in an unexpected way
The National Residents Matching Program (NRMP) is a private organization that runs the only clearinghouse for medical residents. This…
Recently the BBC’s Horizon programme presented a friendly introduction to the world of behavioral economics.
I have just finished to read Piketty’s new book. I do not want to write a classical review of the book, you can already find many of them…
How can we use Game Theory to help us understand where morals come from?
The Prisoners’ Dilemma and Beyond
No. But their ideas can help improve economics, and here’s why
How economists implicitly assume what they claim to know
Economists like to tell stories with their theories. They look like the wrong stories…
Computation could make banks’ systemic risks visible to all
Probably not.
According to actual history, much more often than most economists think
How journalists make arguments with distorted data
Reflections on the campaign for a higher minimum wage in Seattle
A post on copyright and patents which dates back to October 2012, taken from my blog on Wordpress.
Understanding strategic situations through data analysis
In an ideal world we could observe a set of agents with a policy intervention and then observe the same agents during the same time period…
I had a chat with a mathematician who pointed out that none of the work they had produced mattered, whereas the research output of…
The Ultimatum Bargaining Game
RCTs are not the solution to informing policy debates
I keep reading articles about how economics must become more “realistic”, not be obsessed with mathematics.
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