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Running Out of Patience with Economics
A Strange Case of Inverted Area Weights
When doing post-publication peer review, it is easy to become pessimistic about the whole human enterprise of knowledge production. It is easy to run out of patience due to the errors one finds. Furt...
SUTVA’s Long Shadow
Cotenability Complicates the Regressions of Historical Economics
Nelson Goodman’s concept of “cotenability” is a somewhat convoluted way of saying, among other things, that A cannot be a valid counterfactual for B if B’s treatment somehow...
Argentina without Railroads, the United States without Slavery
There is a “Cotenability” Problem in Counterfactuals
The use of counterfactuals has long distinguished economic historians from their more normal historian counterparts. There is, however, a problem, which I will tell you about here.
Anthropic’s Economist in the Anthropocene
The Anthropic Institute recently hired the Stanford professor Charles I. Jones to help achieve its goal “to confront the most significant challenges that powerful AI will pose to our societies.” As another economics professor put it, this m...
The Columbian Exchange for Dummies
“And then Came the Potato…” May Be Overly Simplistic
In The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492 (1972), Alfred Crosby sought to reimagine how we understood the impact of Christopher Columbus. “Man is a biologic...
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