Howard Wall
@hjwallecon.bsky.social
Economist, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Director, Center for Regional Economic Research
Director, Center for Regional Economic Research
We were told that there would be no malarkey. There has been quite a lot of malarkey.
January 18, 2025 at 4:00 PM
We were told that there would be no malarkey. There has been quite a lot of malarkey.
I get that people have to hate pickup trucks because the wrong type of people drive them, but at least try to be accurate. The F-150 is still a working truck with a long bed. You can get a long cab and short bed if you want to.
December 30, 2024 at 9:37 PM
I get that people have to hate pickup trucks because the wrong type of people drive them, but at least try to be accurate. The F-150 is still a working truck with a long bed. You can get a long cab and short bed if you want to.
Given how serious the internet is taking the deadweight loss of Christmas, I think it is time to revive my paper "Cricket vs. Baseball as an Engine of Growth" published by the Royal Economic Society. drive.google.com/file/d/0B-j7...
cricket.pdf
drive.google.com
December 25, 2024 at 4:54 PM
Given how serious the internet is taking the deadweight loss of Christmas, I think it is time to revive my paper "Cricket vs. Baseball as an Engine of Growth" published by the Royal Economic Society. drive.google.com/file/d/0B-j7...
Both columns are just regular old economics. The left column has the assumptions usually used to build simple models. The right column is what nearly everyone who uses the left column believes and often assumes in non-simple models. Assumptions are not beliefs.
Economist Eric Beinhocker: "For almost 200 years the politics of the west, and more recently of much of the world, have been conducted in a framework of right versus left – of markets versus states, and of individual rights versus collective responsibilities." evonomics.com/the-deep-and... #econ
December 23, 2024 at 10:27 PM
Both columns are just regular old economics. The left column has the assumptions usually used to build simple models. The right column is what nearly everyone who uses the left column believes and often assumes in non-simple models. Assumptions are not beliefs.