Steven Bosworth

By the same logic studying game theory should help you make good decisions; but I can tell you from first-hand experience it does not.

Don’t give Wes Streeting ideas!

Ah yes, that cherished form of civic participation: pogroms.

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If states are allowed to encompass “what time is it?” then choices can depend on that. Maybe a stretch..

Would you consider hyperbolic discounting to be an example of act state dependence?

God help you if you move someone’s parking chair.

An argument from arbitrage: if such an algorithm existed and was valuable enough for people to pay for and use, then it could be, and would be worth, training on to avoid such detection.

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And here’s a question that basic Political Economy can answer: if a large number of pivotal voters are invested in a particular asset class, how will governments regulate it?

Ok here’s a question ECON101 is perfectly suited to answer: what happens to the price paid by a consumer when a subsidy is offered on a good with very inelastic supply?

Like we probably CAN handle a bunch of councils, universities, water companies, etc. going bankrupt which is a causal factor in those things being likely to happen 🤦‍♂️

My impression as a US-born naturalised Brit is that UK institutions possess the double-edged capacity for muddling through anything. It’s a strength if the challenges are exogenous. But so many UK challenges are self-inflicted and muddle brain provides the perfect excuse for not fixing them.

British-ass constitutional philosophy

underlying relationships may not even have been attempted to be identified by empiricists until the theory having been elaborated. 2/2

Partial correlations are descriptive statistics. They are an input to the modelling process for theorists, who typically motivate their work with an argument about why interesting descriptive statistics might be explained as an equilibrium of plausible causal relationships. Some of these 1/

German or similar dialects that are very far from Standarddeutsch. So I think it’s best to think of these like how Italian-American food is a strange cousin rather than a bad knock-off.

The US received large numbers of immigrants from Germany and other European countries in the nineteenth century, who came from particular parts of those countries, prior to the national consolidations that Germany or Italy experienced concurrently. You can see the vestiges of this in Pennsylvania

I would simply equate all in-kind marginal rates of substitution and transformation. Everyone will consent to this.

What all UK racists, stretching forwards and back from Powell, don’t get about the US is that slavery also had persistent distortionary effects on White people’s psyche that they share (because they are weird) and are projecting onto the British public.

Western scholars don’t inadvertently rip off Ibn Khaldun challenge

one thing i think people should ask the court conservatives given this ruling is what, specifically, was wrong with plessy?

The 2020 DNC delegates were awarded by proportional representation but no one would have been able to infer that from the discourse.

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at the University of Reading, in England's largest town

Seems like your classic case of managers insisting on process which creates problems which justify their oversight.

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“This protagonist doesn’t seem terribly heroic” discourse is bad enough but the people who sympathise with the antihero make me despair for humanity.

I agree we should be interested in empirical facts for their own sake. But people will always ask “what else would have to be true if this” and that’s a useful disciplining heuristic on empirical work for science as a whole.