Thoughts On Economics

Saturday, September 24, 2016

Parliamentary Parties In A Presidential System and the Failure of the Principle of Subsidiarity

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1.0 Introduction Some have argued that the Republican Party, in the United States of American, has been acting, since Newt Gringrich's...
Friday, September 09, 2016

Tim Lewins: "Economics, Intelligent-Design Theory, And Homeopathy"

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Tim Lewens has written a popular introduction to the philosophy of science, The Meaning of Science: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Sc...
Friday, July 29, 2016

Emmanuelle Benicourt Influenced By Steve Keen?

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I am thinking of absurdity number 3 below. I go a little further because I am amused by the well-established point with which I end this qu...
Tuesday, June 28, 2016

Getting Greater Weight For Your Vote May Not Give You Relatively More Power

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1.0 Introduction This post presents a perhaps surprising example of results from measuring political power in a system with weighted voti...
Wednesday, June 15, 2016

The History and Sociology of Game Theory: A Reading List

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For me, this list is aspirational. I've read Mirowski and the Weintraub-edited book. I've just checked the Erickson book out of a l...
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Monday, May 16, 2016

A Turing Machine for a Binary Counter

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Table 1: Tape in Successive Start States Input/Output Tape Decimal t b 0 0 t b 1 1 t b 10 2 t b 11 3 t b 100 4 t b 101 5 1.0 In...
Saturday, May 14, 2016

Choice Of Technique And Search Models Of Labor Markets

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I do not have an analysis or example to go with this post title. I suggest this would be an interesting research topic. What are implicatio...
Wednesday, May 11, 2016

A Turing Machine For Calculating The Fibonacci Sequence

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Table 1: Representation of the Fibonacci Sequence Input/Output Tape Terms in Series 0 b 1;1; 1, 1 0b1 ; 1;11; 1, 1, 2 0b1;1 ; 11;111 1...
Saturday, May 07, 2016

Noam Chomsky And Norman Mailer Share A Jail Cell For A Night

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No joke. This happened as a result of an October 1967 march on the Pentagon to protest the Vietnam war. I find I had misremembered this pas...
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Saturday, April 30, 2016

A STEAM Experience For A Flash Mob

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1.0 Introduction STEAM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics. This post describes a possible plan for a crowd...
Wednesday, April 13, 2016

Math Is Power

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1.0 Introduction A common type of post in this blog is the presentation of concrete numerical examples in economics. Sometimes I present e...
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