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Which Spanish scholastic economist said that economies could not be controlled even if one could track every transaction?

Which Spanish scholastic economist said that economies could not be controlled even if one could track every transaction? I think the context was an argument against Keynesian economics, Cartesian ...
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Complex Analysis VS Differential Geometry as signals/preparation for grad school?

I am an undergrad (in math and econ) interested in pursuing a PhD in the latter. I can afford a pure math elective this semester and I am torn between diff geom and complex analysis. Which one is more ...
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Economic predictions and the general intelligence systems research?

So I have physics background. And I'm guessing a lot of economists have asked "what is the time evolution of society after general intelligence is discovered?" What is the state of the art ...
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Debreu's ordinal representation theorem is unique up to a positive monotonic transformation, what is the source?

In Debreu's 1954 ordinal utility representation theorem, the utility is unique up to a positive monotonic transformation. While the uniqueness result is well-known, I fail to find a proper reference. ...
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Estimating the form of a utility function on two or more commodities

I am looking for experiments for estimating the form a utility function of a consumer on two or more commodities. In particular, I would like to know e.g. if the utility function of a consumer is of ...
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What was the study that shows peoples' tax preferences shift when they get more information about their income?

I am trying to find a study I read a few years ago, but I forgot the names of the authors and the title of the study. I have already tried to search for the study on Google Scholar without much luck. ...
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Choice Theory Book Reccomendations

I am a post-graduate economics student in India, currently taking a core course in Choice Theory. Unfortunately, there is no standardized text which we are following for the course. The course ...
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What is the net effect of organized crime on the economy of Italy?

In connection to this question are there any empirical estimates of the effect of organized crime on economy of Italy? I am looking for some net effect.
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What are some good general economic journals to keep up with the literature in various fields?

I know about the American Economic Association Journal of Economic Literature (JEL), are there any other examples? By good I mean it should be at least Q1 or Q2 journal. It shouldn't also be ...
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Hello, I am a science graduate, looking to learn about economics, any suggestions where can i start?

Any books you can suggest might be amazing, i am completely new to this and it would be a huge help if you guys could help me out
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Transitivity of Preferences paper

I am going through some of my old grad school notes, and in my microeconomics notes on transitive preferences, the teacher made a note of a behavioral economics result where when presented with two ...
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Reference request: Applying statistical mechanics to price and value

I recall reading a paper a while ago, but have forgotten its title, authors, and abstract. The topic of the paper was how to define "value" without regard to any particular theory of value, ...
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Is there a mathematical more realistic version of economics [closed]

List item I have read many informal introductions to economics I want something not only rigorous but realistic I find classical microeconomics to be very weird, I don;t know if the field has changed....
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Economic models that are useful to understand macroeconomics

I started to study economics. Since I majored in Mathematics, I'd like to learn the principles of macroeconomics through the analysis of a simple economic models (using equations). That's why I ...
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To Gain further knowledge on Economics(Undergraduate)

I am currently in high school, but my textbook doesn't appropriately style the subject as it is. So is there some standard author's book which I can follow with math(log, derivative)? EDIT The branch ...
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Literature exploring theoretically the relationship between inequality and economic growth

Specifically, I'd be very grateful if you may refer me to any literature treating wealth or income inequality or both, but the important thing is that it studies the relationship from a theoretical ...
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MSVAR with predetermined regimes

Suppose I have a VAR model that relates income, consumption and investment. And suppose I want the parameters to vary by the political party in power: A, B or C. As far as I know, Markov Switching VAR ...
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What are some good alternative textbooks in international trades for undergraduates other than 'Taylor & Feenstra' and 'Krugman, Obstfeld & Melitz'?

I've been referring to the textbooks International Economics by Alan M. Taylor and Robert C. Feenstra and International Trade: Theory and Policy by Marc Melitz, Maurice Obstfeld, and Paul Krugman ...
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Reference for monotonicity: $x\geq y\implies x\succsim y$ and $x>y\implies x\succ y$

I've seen this definition for monotonicity many times on different papers and on this site: $x\geq y\implies x\succsim y$ and $x>>y\implies x\succ y$. However, what I read on MWG's ...
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Conversion rate models for multi-touch digital advertising over time

Is there any literature on the conversion rate of multi-touch advertising over time, showing that how decreasing the time between touches increases conversion rate? For example, a chart showing: Y-...
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What are some economics resources I should know of?

There seems to be an overabundance of high quality media thesedays explaining physics, computer science, mathematics giving exposition to ideas in the fields. What are some media giving expositions to ...
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Effect of the construction of the Suez Canal on economies of southern Africa

Merchant ships, before the inauguration of the Suez Canal, used to travel between large parts of Asia and Europe by travelling around Africa. I feel this must have boosted the economies of many of the ...
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Books exploring economics of Leisure and free time?

One I found already is "Finding Time: The Economics of Work-Life Conflict" by Boushey, what are some other books I could read about this topic?
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Did Hume or Ricardo show trade deficits are self-correcting?

Economist Paul Krugman said this in a 1993 journal paper: The last 15 years have been a golden age of innovation in international economics. must somewhat depressingly conclude, however, that this ...
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Ricardo Reis and S&D decompositions of inflation

In this presentation at around 21:20, Ricardo Reis discusses a two-sector New Keynesian model to explain that the supply and demand decompositions of inflation by Adam Shapiro as not as informative as ...
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How does production inputs price volatility affect production price?

Suppose a price ($P$) of a final good is a function of the costs, such as labor cost, costs for commodities, markup, i.e.: $$P=f(\mu,LC,Com,...),$$ where $\mu$ is the markup, $LC$ is the labor cost, $...
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Readings on how macro economic policies change with size of countries

I have developed an intuition that the type of economic policies which would be suitable for countries, would change with respect to the size of countries. For example, the ideal fiscal policy, for a ...
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Stochastic control of jumps of random size

Consider the problem of maximizing expected lifetime utility $$ V(a_t) \equiv \max_c\mathrm{E}_t \int_t^\infty e^{\rho (s - t)}u(c_t)\mathrm{d}t $$ subject to a state process $\mathrm{d}a_t$ which is ...
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Are There Studies Estimating the Prevalence of 'Bullshit Jobs' Across Countries?

Have there been any studies conducted to estimate the proportion of 'Bullshit Jobs,' as defined by David Graeber, across different countries? Are there any known efforts to visualize this data in a ...
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What are the most creative uses of Mathematics in Economics

Could you recommend economic papers or books that exhibit exceptionally creative applications of mathematics? In other words, if you were to demonstrate to a mathematician the joy and potential of ...
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Econ literature recommendations on Health Policy Evaluation

I am writing a methodological paper on public policy evaluation in the context of child health outcomes. Particularly in Africa, multiple policies are launched simultaneously trying to improve child ...
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Measuring Degree of Product Differentiation/Market Segmentation

In context of Hotelling location model, if firms are located at end points (maximal differentiation), then, except the customer(s) at the centre, all others have a strictly preferred seller. Suppose ...
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Knitting empirical results in development economics together

Development Economics, to my knowledge, has become a mostly empirical field, with RCTs and other quasi-experimental techniques yielding a huge body of empirical knowledge about specific policies and ...
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Textbooks for Teaching Intro Micro (Principles): What are the tradeoffs?

As a new AP, I'm assigned to teach Principles of Microeconomics. Different teaching mentors I've asked about course materials have mentioned different texts, but I'm having a hard time getting a sense ...
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Is there a source for historical GDP by sector composition in the 20th century?

I've been looking for historical data on GDP for various countries, and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_regions_by_past_GDP_(PPP) has been helpful in this sense; however I'm interested in ...
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Textbook Recommendation for IS-LM AS-AD Models

I am currently taking an intro to macroeconomics class, and I am looking for undergraduate level study material to understand the IS-LM model and its interactions with the AS-AD model. Can you give me ...
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Understanding the Nash equilibrium for quadratic utilities

I need help to understand some steps of the article "Who's Who in Networks. Wanted: The Key Player" and I would greatly appreciate if someone can provide me with references or if they can ...
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Have there been any other attempts to axiomatize/mathematize a model of an economy from the ground up like Debreu's Theory of Value

I'm looking for other attempts to axiomatize/mathematize the model of an economy from the ground up, into a sort of a long-winded general mathematical model, as it is done in Debreu's Theory of Value. ...
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Is there good primer for distributional macroeconomics?

Distributional macroeconomics (for example; works of Ben Moll) seems to be more and more popular these days. Is there any good primer for student that wants to try to get into this new field? I am ...
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Resourcess to study matching (game theory)

I want to study matching markets, algorithms etc. in a fairly comprehensive way. I would want to learn the theory primarily, but books that offer applications as examples would be preferable as long ...
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Do Aggregated consumers make sense?

Aggregated consumers as a biased concept (in case of cross-price elasticity)? I try to approach aggregated consumption data as if it was a new consumer (similarly to approaching average data as if it ...
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Which covariates can I include in my fixed-effects regression?

I am doing a difference-in-difference analysis of an event that affected several states in the US. I am interested to understand the effects of this event on state-level unemployment rates. I have ...
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Price fluctuations around experience curves

The cobweb model explains price fluctuations in certain types of markets, the classic example being agricultural markets. The cost structure underlying these markets is presumed to be fixed. I'm ...
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Mathematical Prerequisites for Recursive Macroeconomic Theory (Thomas J Sargent, Lars Ljungqvist)

I'm a math grad who is interested in learning more about economics for fun. Reading through RMT, I saw some interesting math (in chapter 2) around using "invariant functions" to determine ...
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Learning benefits in shorter and longer term policy interventions

Different policy interventions have different time horizons. Labour market or welfare policies can be enacted much faster that many infrastructure policies can; it takes much less time to change ...
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Are people less likely to apply to jobs in which they will be a minority?

Hypothesis: People are less likely to apply for a job in which they will be under-represented relative to the wider population. More technically, the distribution of job applicants is the same as, or ...
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Is there any economic history book on how western economy coped with the fall of roman empire?

I recently finished Tamin's The Roman Market Economy. The book describes how Roman Republic and later Roman Empire created an integrated and at the time developed European economy. I enjoyed it a lot, ...
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Forgetting name of influential paper on evolution applied to corporations

There is a paper that I would like to cite because I remember what it said except that I am forgetting who wrote it and what its title was. Basically people were skeptical that corporations could ...
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Applied financial econometrics textbook

I am looking for an applied financial econometrics textbook. There are plenty of textbooks that present time series models used in financial econometrics but few of them put any emphasis on ...
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Econometrics blogs (after Econometrics Beat has been closed)

I used to follow Dave Giles' blog called Econometrics Beat. I enjoyed it very much and learned tons from it. Unfortunately, the professor retired and closed the blog three years ago. I would like to ...
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