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{{stub}} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/2811431872 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein |username=EricRWeinstein |content=In fact, joking with @toothfairycyber aside, the "tooth fairy" has far more science behind her than [[Stable Tastes|'stable tastes']]: http://bit.ly/HaexQ |timestamp=3:09 AM 路 Jul 24, 2009 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/3618131148 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein |username=EricRWeinstein |content=Rules are that it has to be in the Econ department on video with [[Gary Becker|Becker]] present at Chicago or Jorgenson at [[Harvard]]. |thread= {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/3617527422 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein |username=EricRWeinstein |content=[[Arrow's Impossibility Theorem|Arrow's impossibility theorem]] can be seen as a cohomological obstruction to constructing representative consumers without magical thinking. |timestamp=2:42 AM 路 Aug 29, 2009 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/3617738723 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein |username=EricRWeinstein |content=[[Gary Becker|Becker's]] theory of [[Stable Tastes|stable homogenous tastes]] on the other hand is....words fail me...the greatest indictment of [[Peer Review|peer review]]. Ever. |timestamp=2:54 AM 路 Aug 29, 2009 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/3617798373 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein |username=EricRWeinstein |content=Just for a moment...put yourself in my shoes. I have an amazing theory of welfare with evolving tastes and a cult that claims [[Stable Tastes|stable tates]]. |timestamp=2:57 AM 路 Aug 29, 2009 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/3617875123 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein |username=EricRWeinstein |content=Why stop at [[Stable Tastes|stable tastes]]? Why not declare yourself the last Pasha of Scotland and immune from bigamy laws as a winged son of Zeus? |timestamp=3:01 AM 路 Aug 29, 2009 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/3618080234 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein |username=EricRWeinstein |content=$500 Challenge: Get me an invited Econ gig at Chicago / [[Harvard]] to confront the theory of ordinal welfare with [[Stable Tastes|stable homogenous tastes]]. |timestamp=3:13 AM 路 Aug 29, 2009 }} |timestamp=3:16 AM 路 Aug 29, 2009 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/3886175728 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein |username=EricRWeinstein |content=VaR -> [[Kayfabe]] <nowiki>|</nowiki> [[Ronald Coase|Coase]] -> Economics <nowiki>|</nowiki> [[Stable Tastes]] -> [[Kayfabe]] <nowiki>|</nowiki> [[Arrow's Impossibility Theorem|Arrow's Theorem]] -> Economics <nowiki>|</nowiki> Rep. Consumer -> [[Kayfabe]] <nowiki>|</nowiki> B. Scholes-> Econ |timestamp=12:26 PM 路 Sep 10, 2009 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1461434251107180551 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein |username=EricRWeinstein |content=<nowiki>#</nowiki>bitcoin #Crypto #nft #Blockchain #Decentralization #DeFi #web3 #inflation #cpi #Trade #gaugetheory |thread= {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1461432604477911040 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein |username=EricRWeinstein |content=Bitcoiners & I are focused on the danger of two related DC printing presses: I) One that prints money directed by the Federal Reserve. II) One that prints the CPI at the @BLS_gov which *forces* billions of dollars in wealth transfers and which can disguise the printing of fiat. |media1=ERW-X-post-1461432602112368642-FEgNNHMVcAM0Kg-.jpg |timestamp=8:34 PM 路 Nov 18, 2021 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1461432604477911040 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein |username=EricRWeinstein |content=We don鈥檛 always agree. I鈥檝e no idea how Satoshi took aim at I) above. And I don鈥檛 yet know how to explain the importance of gauge theory to Gold (physical Gauge Theory), Prices/Quantities (abelian GT), Trade (non-abelian GT) and Utility (infinite dim GT): https://economics.uchicago.edu/sites/economics.uchicago.edu/files/Welfare_Chicago_Draft.pdf |timestamp=8:34 PM 路 Nov 18, 2021 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1461432608923914241 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein |username=EricRWeinstein |content=But we鈥檝e been working together behind the scenes. I so appreciate @Breedlove22 coming to Chicago to witness what I hope will be the beginning of an attack on abuses of perhaps the second most dangerous printing press in Washington as inflation heats up. Thanks #Bitcoiners: LFG. |timestamp=8:34 PM 路 Nov 18, 2021 |media1=ERW-X-post-1461432608923914241-FEgNNkoVEAAcdGr.jpg }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1461432611918651392 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein |username=EricRWeinstein |content=Lastly when we trade with nations that have a different currency from ours, how can we measure inflation of both separate currencies relative to two baskets (imports & exports) without artificially assuming the law of one price? We *must* innovate here: https://economics.uchicago.edu/sites/economics.uchicago.edu/files/Chicago_Trade_Index_Draft.pdf |timestamp=8:34 PM 路 Nov 18, 2021 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1461432612933693442 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein |username=EricRWeinstein |content=Bitcoiners, open minded economists & math/physics folks: we have a serious problem navigating world markets using indicators that currently rely on *preposterous* assumptions (homotheticity, law of one price, [[Stable Tastes|stable tastes]], etc) Economics needs more eyeballs on it from outside.馃檹 |timestamp=8:34 PM 路 Nov 18, 2021 }} |timestamp=8:40 PM 路 Nov 18, 2021 }}
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