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	\|content=One of the things my trolls like to point to is outrageous claims.		\|content=One of the things my trolls like to point to is outrageous [[Claims\|claims]].

	One of my most outrageous is that my joint work on a 2nd Marginal Revolution for economics was scuttled by the Harvard Department of Economics [[Boskin Commission\|Boskin Commissioners]].		One of my most outrageous is that my joint work on a 2nd Marginal Revolution for economics was scuttled by the Harvard Department of Economics [[Boskin Commission\|Boskin Commissioners]].

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	\|content=The moral of the story to me is this:		\|content=The [[Morals\|moral]] of the story to me is this:

	We can’t have outside folks calculating and theorizing while the inside economists are fudging and cooking the books.		We can’t have outside folks calculating and theorizing while the inside economists are fudging and cooking the books.
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	\|content=One of the things my trolls like to point to is outrageous claims.		\|content=One of the things my trolls like to point to is outrageous claims.

	One of my most outrageous is that my joint work on a 2nd Marginal Revolution for economics was scuttled by the Harvard Department of Economics ~~'''~~Boskin Commissioners~~'''~~.		One of my most outrageous is that my joint work on a 2nd Marginal Revolution for economics was scuttled by the Harvard Department of Economics [[Boskin Commission\|Boskin Commissioners]].

	Yet it’s admitted:		Yet it’s admitted:
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	\|content=In any event, I stand by my claim. The ~~'''~~Boskin Commission~~'''~~ was organized by Moynihan and Packwood to deliberately break the [[CPI]] in a precise amount to avoid the US paying 1 trillion dollars over 10 years.		\|content=In any event, I stand by my [[Claims\|claim]]. The [[Boskin Commission]] was organized by Moynihan and Packwood to deliberately break the [[CPI]] in a precise amount to avoid the US paying 1 trillion dollars over 10 years.

	And I promise you no leading economist will call bullshit to debate this.		And I promise you no leading economist will call bullshit to debate this.

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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|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=As an example. The ~~'''~~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.		\|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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