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|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=This eliminates a step or two. You may have to watch in lower resolution if you are on your phone however: https://x.com/sabinowitz/status/1423394091409330182 | |content=This eliminates a step or two. You may have to watch in lower resolution if you are on your phone however: https://x.com/sabinowitz/status/1423394091409330182 | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1423391836417056773 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1423391836417056773 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=I am wholly supportive of this effort. Whether this iteration succeeds or fails is immaterial. The important thing is to take [[Inflation|inflation]] away from those who would disguise: | |content=I am wholly supportive of this effort. Whether this iteration succeeds or fails is immaterial. The important thing is to take [[Inflation|inflation]] away from those who would disguise: | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1423391838778527746 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1423391838778527746 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=Why are they holding back the theory of index numbers ([[CPI]], GDP)? Because the more innovation, the less freedom to dial our gauges to whatever values the political patrons of macro economics ask. The field is literally held back by leading economists to preserve their own power. | |content=Why are they holding back the theory of index numbers ([[CPI]], GDP)? Because the more innovation, the less freedom to dial our gauges to whatever values the political patrons of macro economics ask. The field is literally held back by leading economists to preserve their own power. | ||
|timestamp=9:13 PM · Aug 5, 2021 | |timestamp=9:13 PM · Aug 5, 2021 | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1423391839638364162 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1423391839638364162 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=Around 1996, [[Boskin Commission|Boskin Commissioner]] Jorgensen held back the biggest unambiguous advance in mathematical economics that I am aware of in decades. It would have interfered with their finding that the [[CPI]] was 1.1% overstated. He calculated 1.1% would save a round Trillion for U.S. | |content=Around 1996, [[Boskin Commission|Boskin Commissioner]] Jorgensen held back the biggest unambiguous advance in mathematical economics that I am aware of in decades. It would have interfered with their finding that the [[CPI]] was 1.1% overstated. He calculated 1.1% would save a round Trillion for U.S. | ||
|timestamp=9:13 PM · Aug 5, 2021 | |timestamp=9:13 PM · Aug 5, 2021 | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1423391840535863296 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1423391840535863296 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=We can’t afford for economics to pretend it is a science in public, yet act as an incentive operated consultancy which can get you any result you need to fit the political agenda. | |content=We can’t afford for economics to pretend it is a science in public, yet act as an incentive operated consultancy which can get you any result you need to fit the political agenda. | ||
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|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=[[Inflation]] is like a thermometer. You ask how hot/cold it is. You don’t get to ask “What do you need the Gauge to say? How much thumb should be on the scale?” | |content=[[Inflation]] is like a thermometer. You ask how hot/cold it is. You don’t get to ask “What do you need the Gauge to say? How much thumb should be on the scale?” | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1423391842624696321 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1423391842624696321 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=Lastly, it is high time my co-developer of the theory got her due without being subjected to both the Matilda & Matthew effects. Man-boys really do drive technical women out of technical fields because they can’t cite a woman who is smarter than they are. Enough. | |content=Lastly, it is high time my co-developer of the theory got her due without being subjected to both the Matilda & Matthew effects. Man-boys really do drive technical women out of technical fields because they can’t cite a woman who is smarter than they are. Enough. | ||
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|content=The co-developer of gauge thy in econ as a 2nd Marginal Revolution is Pia Malaney in the early 1990s at Harvard. | |content=The co-developer of gauge thy in econ as a 2nd Marginal Revolution is Pia Malaney in the early 1990s at Harvard. | ||
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|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=I think this is a great introduction to geometric marginalism and economic field theory. Hope you love it: | |content=I think this is a great introduction to geometric marginalism and economic field theory. Hope you love it: | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1990534949397803328 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1990534949397803328 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=So to sum it up: he is not wrong. | |content=So to sum it up: he is not wrong. | ||
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|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=I believe [[Jeffrey Epstein|Epstein]] is referring implicitly to the “[[Price Statistics Review Committee (Stigler Commission)|Stigler Commission]]” of 1959-1961. | |content=I believe [[Jeffrey Epstein|Epstein]] is referring implicitly to the “[[Price Statistics Review Committee (Stigler Commission)|Stigler Commission]]” of 1959-1961. | ||
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|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
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|content=In a telephone conversation around 2004, he somehow was already well aware of the [[Boskin Commission|1996 Boskin Commission]] and Harvard Economics department burying our work on [[Gauge Theory]] in economics called “[[Geometric Marginalism]]”. That seemed pretty weird at the time. | |content=In a telephone conversation around 2004, he somehow was already well aware of the [[Boskin Commission|1996 Boskin Commission]] and Harvard Economics department burying our work on [[Gauge Theory]] in economics called “[[Geometric Marginalism]]”. That seemed pretty weird at the time. | ||