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I have a blog post or maybe a thread brewing about how existential questions in economics warp everything.
So you a big piece of your entire food supply is tainted. Do you raise the alarm?
If it's a tolerable loss, sure.
But what if it's an amount where there won't be food to go around if you do? Or where it'll disrupt the food system enough to cause it to break?
Then what?
I think this warps a LOT of what we see in the modern world. It's a …

Not a recent blog post, but still very relevant. I regret to announce it really does seem to be going as planned.
https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/meet-the-economist-behind-the-one-percents-stea…

Meet the Hidden Architect Behind America's Racist Economics
Nobel laureate James Buchanan is the intellectual linchpin of the Koch-funded attack on democratic institutions, argues Duke historian Nancy MacLean

TikTok-funded Oxford Economics study of 1K US SMBs and 7.5K users: in 2023, TikTok drove $14.7B in SMB revenue, added $24.2B to US GDP, and supported 224K jobs (Taylor Lorenz/Washington Post)
https://wapo.st/3VfHAyq

TikTok claims its contribution to the economy is huge
The report was done with the cooperation of TikTok, which granted its authors access to information on the site.

In some fields, like economics and finance, authors tend to use long variable names comprising one or more full words. These variables often look odd if not outright ugly when set in LaTeX. The same is true of common acronyms used as variables or functions in equations. This post looks at why these terms often look bad in LaTeX equations and how to write them correctly in the LaTeX code so they look good.

Handling Long Variable Names in LaTeX Math - Words by Wes
In some fields, such as economics and finance, authors tend to use long variable names comprising one or more full words. And oftentimes, these variables look odd if not outright ugly when set in LaTeX. The same is true of common financial acronyms, often used as variables or functions in…

#NowPlaying - when the weather's right (& it usually is) i'd follow gene clark off a cliff if he sang about it. such a startling, human voice. i sort of understand the economics & personalities, but still amazing to me that his first 3 post-byrds albums are credited as collaborations despite clark being the main songwriter. don't think dillard & clark ever played live (th…

This Facebook post claims that the cost of building a new large container ship can be recovered in a single voyage from China to the USA. Is there anyone out there who knows enough about shipping economics to be able to evaluate this claim? Is shipping *really* that profitable?
https://www.facebook.com/reel/18838…

In some fields, like economics and finance, authors tend to use long variable names comprising one or more full words. These variables often look odd if not outright ugly when set in LaTeX. The same is true of common acronyms used as variables or functions in equations. This post looks at why these terms often look bad in LaTeX equations and how to write them correctly in the LaTeX code so they look good.

Handling Long Variable Names in LaTeX Math - Words by Wes
In some fields, such as economics and finance, authors tend to use long variable names comprising one or more full words. And oftentimes, these variables look odd if not outright ugly when set in LaTeX. The same is true of common financial acronyms, often used as variables or functions in…