A Lion of a Scholar, a Lamb of a Man: Rest in Peace, Walter E. Williams
Walter Williams passed last night or this morning. I spend the first hour of the morning crying, gave my course lecture with dry eyes, then cried some more. M...
Author: Abigail Devereaux
What’s the difference between game theory and agent-based modeling?
The following was written as a response to a Quora question, linked here. Game theory is a framework for strategic interaction developed so that players can gen...
How to Start Publishing in Economics as a Grad Student: A Few (Hopefully) Helpful Tips
In my third year of my PhD in economics, I wasn’t sure what to do with the considerable glut of first drafts I’d accumulated by writing papers for c...
An Ecologically Rational Analysis of Nudge Theory
Here’s a short essay on how nudge theory would be interpreted in an ecologically rational frame. This essay is a bit of a teaser for a paper I’m wor...
My problem with Kirznerian surprise
The problem I see with Kirznerian “surprise,” as Kirzner elaborates on in his “Entrepreneurial Discovery and the Competitive Market Process,&#...
Published in Public Choice online: My book review of Colander and Kupers “Complexity and the Art of Public Policy”
My book review of Colander and Kupers “Complexity and the Art of Public Policy” has been published online in the journal Public Choice. http://link....
Book Review: Complexity and the Art of Public Policy
In Complexity and the Art of Public Policy, David Colander and Roland Kupers introduce the “complexity frame” of policy-making, and argue for bottom-up policy-m...
A Conless Macroeconomics?
I’m reading Vela Velupillai’s “Variations on the Theme of Conning in Mathematical Economics” (2007), which is one of his many contributi...
Undecidability, Incompleteness and Irreducibility in Mathematical Economics
This essay is written in the style of Morgenstern’s “Thirteen critical points in contemporary economic theory” (1972) Methodological thinkers ...