As I wrote three weeks ago and two week ago, by reading Ghislaine Idabouk's briliant dissertation on the mathematics of options pricing (Black, Scholes, Merton, etc) I have been inspired to do a weekly blog on philosophy of economics. Th...
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Rawls famously argued for the use of maximin behind the veil of ignorance. It's a rule that maximizes one's own minimum payoff. Now much debate has centered on to what degree this rule is too Conservative. But what's interesting about Ra...
As communal life comes screeching to a collective halt for the indefinite future (including not-quite-Italy-but-close bans on movement in San Francisco), and as public health officials go into “more lockdown is better” mode, it seems imp...
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[This is from a larger piece -- the section is entitled, four ways in which economics is reflexive -- that I am composing.]
One way in which economics is reflexive is that the incentives of the economists qua...
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Shortly after elections to the European Parliament, and in the midst of political jostling over the name of the next President of the Commision, is a timing that makes a post on European politics and the idea of Europe timely, though t...
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This entry is a day late (with apologies). One of the most important (Hayekian) arguments for using markets and prices is an epistemic one: the market process as a discovery mechanism. Prices aggregate and convey information to disper...
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