Editing Paul Samuelson (section)

=== 2021 ===

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|content=I would take a look at [https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2018/06/samuelson-lecture.pdf '''Paul Samuelson'''’s Nobel lecture]. He goes into depth on revealed preference and preference field non-integrability. I think we have lost track of the fact that integrability of tastes was never actually settled except by fiat. Will talk on this.
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|content=ANNOUNCEMENT: I head next week to @UChicago  for 5 days (Nov. 8-12) at the request of its storied Department of Economics to present our theory that all of economics is based on the wrong version of the differential calculus.

Importantly, this error afflicts Inflation &amp; the [[CPI]].
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|content=Hi Eric, where can I find your calculations, data, and conclusions on what the real inflation and CPI numbers are?
|timestamp=11:19 AM · Nov 5, 2021
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|content=Weird question. You seem to have me confused for the BLS. I don't take in Data. I don't have a staff or a budget. You're assuming that I have the 'Real Inflation &amp; [[CPI]] numbers'. I don't.

This is about not even having a correct *theory* to calculate. What we corrected was theory.
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|content=Just to give you an idea:
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|content=So if you have the correct theory then why wouldn't you be able to calculate the correct results from the existing input data available?
|timestamp=11:47 AM · Nov 5, 2021
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|content=I didn’t say what you said. I said there was a wrong theory for [[CPI]]. We corrected that theory.

The issue of how to implement a theory in practice leases to different data being collected and different aggregations. For a different theory, you would collect different data.
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|content=As an example. The [[Boskin Commission|Boskin commission]] gave a single illustrative example in their report using two goods, chicken and beef. They gave prices but not ordinal utility. Here is the COL answer assuming Cobb-Douglas and Linear interpolation of all quantities. They could not compute it.
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|content=The reason they had no theory to cover it was because the C-D exponent changed. And there is a claim that no extension of the Konus COL exists for dynamic tastes. 

Hope that helps with your confusion. Be well.
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|content=<nowiki>*</nowiki>leads not leases in the above.
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|content=Yea I understand that and find your points interesting. So I would like to understand how we would go about invalidating the traditional theories by collecting and analyzing the correct data. I don't think those tweets answer that. I get your hypothesis.
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|content=Well I think the BLS should begin by questioning their own premises. They say they work in a COL framework. They do not. They do not share how they construct the representative consumer. How they estimate substitution if they don’t have preference data. It’s fake and a mess.
|timestamp=1:27 AM · Nov 5, 2021
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|content=If they are going to do COLas they should estimate preferences. If they aren’t they should do mechanical index theory.

But I would use a bunch of that money to develop a research program on preference collection/imputation for substitution bias if I was running a COL shop.
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|content=Ok how many researchers would you need? Is the average salary $300k? What are the non-labour costs needed? Could this be done in 1 year? 

Could we get this done with let's say $10m? Is $609m necessary for a MVP?
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|content=I am not sure. But the first question I have is do we believe ordinal preference maps are constructable from revealed preference.
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|content=Well if we were to get you started with all the resources necessary, wouldn’t the assumption be yes to apply your theory?
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|content=@swede_irish “More heat than light” is PM’s book which is fairly idiosyncratic, but has the right flavor. '''Samuelson’s Nobel lecture on integrability''' is another source. Von Weitzacker is yet another source admitting the issues from within the field: you can’t restrict welfare theory as we do.
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|content=@swede_irish I don’t know what those words mean at a *technical* level. I get what they are meant to suggest, obviously. But I don’t think that is what CPI-U actually is in a meaningful technical way.
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|content=@swede_irish Wow. Uh.  If I don’t, who does? E Diewert?  B Balk? Who?
|timestamp=6:52 AM · Nov 8, 2021
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|content=@swede_irish As for “Stay in your lane”…ha. Economists should listen. May I recommend “Economic Imperialism”? 

No thanks. No one should put up with expert arrogance masquerading as understanding. I freely admitted I don’t understand CPI-U. You pretended that you did. That’s not worth much..
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|content=@swede_irish I am going to sleep soon. But I spent years trying to understand what economists thought they were doing. I came to the conclusion that they didn’t know themselves. And they were often forced to admit this based on technical questioning. It’s not that they have this down solidly.
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