Friday, January 09, 2026

Elsewhere

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5852883

Godley said...

Whole thing reeks of GPT-4 trying to sound like a Mises Institute white paper. 'Analytical specter.' 'Knife-edge fragility.' 'Phantom menace.'

These verbose nothing-sentences impress no one. What you showed as a 'proof' was a basic finance identity.

I sent you an email itemizing pretty much every cost you ignored & every polynomial root you pretended way.

Robert Vienneau said...

I briefly skimmed the paper. I am not impressed by arguments about extreme assumptions needed to get reswitching. Or do you mean capital-reversing? Or other capital-theoretic paradoxes? I am the view that capital-reversing can occur at low interest rates. And the parameters of an example can be varied somewhat while keeping the so-called paradox. It is not like the fluke cases I have been exploring, such as wage curves being tangent at a switch point.