Ranil Dissanayake

This is going to bankrupt me

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This is a spectacular reference.

Tolstoy and his confidante (a lizard).

From Gorky’s Fragments from My Diary

What is development economics? I asked development economists for their definitions of development economics.

What is development economics?

I find it more and more difficult to define what development economics actually is.

So, for this @voxdev.bsky.social blog, I asked development economists how they define development economics: voxdev.org/topic/what-d...

Reading Pearl on causality widened my horizons so much. Made it harder, though, but so crucial for thinking this all through from a practical policy perspective.

This is a crucial point. Still relatively few economists are explicitly trained on this point, and too many econ papers show it.

Can you share the table?

I haven't thought about this deeply, but how much do we think using PPPs adjusts for the Baumol effect here? On a scale of 100% to not at all

When thinking about how to get out of this mess we need to keep in mind 'asymmetric causation'. Knowing what caused a problem doesn't tell you how to solve it. The example that brought the point home to me was: If you're run over by a steamroller, the cure is not to have it reverse back over you

A wine that makes you think, @jowolff.bsky.social

Maybe he misread the title as 'complex organisms'?

"One star. TOO MANY WORDS!"

This is a truly mad review of Perrow's classic Complex Organizations:

New entrant to the J-Rock song name hall of fame

Cackling

Just a happy coincident he’s also incredibly good at cricket (another one I called spectacularly wrong in his early career)

Some people are cool because they’re good at something, and in others it’s just completely innate to their bearing. Jadeja is the latter. He could be a clerk in the bank and he’d be the coolest bank clerk in history.

I’m about a third of the way through, and absolutely love it. I feel exactly the same way.

And let’s be honest, I’d rather watch Jayawardene bat than read Brodsky, and I’ve done a lot of both.

He also says “poetry is more valuable than cricket”, which isn’t so much wrong as just a complete nonsense. It’s like saying hiking is better than a good glass of wine. They’re two different things done at two different times! I don’t need to rank them.

Bedtime reading. I’m three pages into Apology and have already written the margin note “not just wrong but dangerously wrong.” He may yet convince me otherwise, mind.

do you know if the slides are available anywhere?

World *excluding china* goes from ~30% to <15% in 2015.

I hope it will be the sort of retirement where you don’t disappear from our feeds and reading material!

for more than one reason, my memories of these days is a bit hazy. we had a lot of fun.

I like them more!! But I admit to being very partial, as I met them several times in my teens/early 20s as my friends supported them a few times.

“Satanic boom boom head” 😂😂😂😂

Japanese punk bands have the coolest song names