Sunday, April 8, 2018

On the blogs -- The Measurement Edition


Here are 15 Common Data Fallacies to Avoid-- Jeff Desjardins at Visual Capitalist on some common mistakes. I like the McNamara fallacy, which is probably common in economics

Welfare Versus GDP: What Makes People Better Off-- Geoffrey Bannister and Alexandros Mourmouras at the IMF blog on alternative measures of well-being

Inequality and Poverty-- Chris Dillow at Stumbling and Mumbling on the limits of the Gini coefficient
By -

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

Rethinking the determination and long-run evolution of income distribution

New paper by Thomas Palley. From the abstract: This paper presents a theory and model of long-run cycles in income inequality. The model exp...

  • Hyperinflation in Bitcoinland
    There are Gold Bugs and there are  Bitcoin Bugs. They all oppose fiat money (hate the Fed and other monetary authorities) and follow some s...
  • The capital debates: A brief introduction
    Teaching on the capital debates this and last week. So here are some thoughts, based on my class notes and the required readings (see below)...
  • A reply to Wray - Part I
    By Sergio Cesaratto (Guest Blogger) “The fact that individual countries no longer have their own currencies and central banks will put n...