{"id":5708,"date":"2013-04-23T13:38:41","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T20:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=5708"},"modified":"2013-04-23T13:38:41","modified_gmt":"2013-04-23T20:38:41","slug":"we-can-start-exposing-economists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/we-can-start-exposing-economists\/","title":{"rendered":"We Can Start Exposing Economists&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>We Can Start Exposing Economists:<br \/>I just finished a very rough draft of Fat Tails &amp; AntiFragility ~100 pages. <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/file\/d\/0B_31K_MP92hURjZxTkxUTFZnMVk\/edit?pli=1\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/docs.google.com\/file\/d\/0B_31K_MP92hURjZxTkxUTFZnMVk\/edit?pli=1<\/a> PART I provides a mathematical toolkit to detect anything that is bullshit in economic modeling particularly macroeconomics, figure out which papers are flawed from a scientific standpoint, etc. When I mean flawed, it is on the basis that the math used impresses nonmathematicians but does not support the stated policy conclusions.<br \/>So I start by putting one Karl Whelan &#8220;scientific&#8221; work under severe mathematical scrutiny. I select him to start as he worked with central banks, the perfect profile of the person supported by the taxpayer against the taxpayer&#8217;s own interests. I also had a disgraceful encounter with him and his macro peers on twitter.Mr Whelan&#8217;s papers can be found here: http:\/\/ideas.repec.org\/e\/pwh23.htmlWe can progressively expose mathematized social science that way, as I am refining the text, adding words and examples.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=10151451368958375&amp;id=13012333374\">We Can Start&#8230; | Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We Can Start Exposing Economists:I just finished a very rough draft of Fat Tails &amp; AntiFragility ~100 pages. https:\/\/docs.google.com\/file\/d\/0B_31K_MP92hURjZxTkxUTFZnMVk\/edit?pli=1 PART I provides a mathematical toolkit to detect anything that is bullshit in economic modeling particularly macroeconomics, figure out which papers are flawed from a scientific standpoint, etc. When I mean flawed, it is on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facebook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5709,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5708\/revisions\/5709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}