leo-pejsachowicz.bsky.social
Paris based, experimental economics/decision theory inclined.
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Note that part of that comes from the state setting a high minimum wage and then - to control unemployment - subsidizing employers that hire workers near that min. wage level (through reductions of employer contributions for low salaries), which skews the optimal mix of jobs for firms
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Pilketty made the same case for France a while ago, I think it was in a policy report during the Holland years (his point there was low inequalty in France is not due to the tax system, that is regressive for high incomes).
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Square heterodox economist, engageable for conversation but not re:academic research. My personal impression (may be wrong) being that as other non orthodox schools (think austrians) they went too much into history of economic thought / exegesis of their great thinkers.
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Note that much of the concern trolling in France comes from sides (the populist left, the center right) that hope to recover some RN votes, just to give a measure of how insincere it is. Still, RN had decent chances of winning already, and I don't think LePen's exclusion obviously reduced the odds.
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I think the backlash risk is much lower than people make of it: it might fire up their base, but RN was never going to win the presidential with the base alone, and voter participation rates are usually so high that it is unlikely we'll see a significant increase caused by enraged right wingers.
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I mean, Cruella kills puppies, puppies!
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Probably result 3 has something to say about this, surely worth a read in any case
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Given we know that different incentivized measures of the same economic "construct" (be it risk aversion, or discount factor, or altruism) are not very correlated to each other and only somewhat to external behaviors, this work may be more an indictment of incentivization than of self assessments.
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At first I thought it was an AITA
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Oh boy do I have news for you: www.reddit.com/r/ghibli/s/z...
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"In 2019, Keon West (that’s me) and Asia Eaton published interesting findings on just this topic."
Why would he phrase the sentence like this instead of "Asian Eaton and I..."? Boggles the mind.
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The Expanse was so good. Still hoping we get a Laconia cycle in 25 years when all the actors have correctly aged.
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As a youngster in Italy in the late 90's, politics and media were so filled with Berlusconi I once made a dream with him in it. I stayed away from the news for a couple of months after that. This moment feels so similar.
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Isn't this just a manifestation of peer review incentives? Philosophers' work will hardly be judged by reviewers on the basis of their discernment of science scholarship. This will be truer the farther the cited discipline is from the citing scholar, or the more insular the discipline (see Econ).
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Wouldn't have thought "uninformed" would qualify as fighting words, but fine. No need to pay attention to me. Would be nice if you did so for the field though. A pity if you were to dismiss it a priori, seeing as you work in econ popularization
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You should look up the field, it's an exciting, and much more mature, place. It is benefitting from interest by theorists and econometricians that has vastly improved the methods and rigour in evaluation of experimental results.
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Uninformed comment, based on an already pretty uninformed article. Most behavioral econ research I see today is exactly interested in unearthing fundamental knowledge on human behavior, not on giving "one weird trick" solutions (and this was mostly true already 20 years ago).
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How do you block people on here already?
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Still, you'd figure an economic sector with all that concentration would have less coordination problems?
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Finally, the use of terms that have different meanings to different groups has a strong wiff of dog-whistle politics here
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I mean, it's not that fucking hard,
"Arbeit Macht Frei" might be interpreted by some germans as an instigation to self-fulfillment through hard work, but I would still suggest avoiding its use.
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Mhhh... maybe it is a bad idea to illustrate this with a 2018 article that supports its argument stressing how "Hamas distanced itself" from their "hostility to Jews", given recent events. Also, yes, it has different meanings, but maybe just avoid it if to a bunch of people it means extermination?