Mathematica is a powerful computational engine, and I do all my research and some of my teaching using it. Cosma Shalizi has posted his thoughts on programming well in R, and Martin at Geary has posted his thoughts and some cool links on Stata, so I thought I’d write something about Mathematica, rather than ranting [...]
I’ve been going to lots of conferences recently, and I’ve been asked to chair a few sessions here and there. Some have gone well, others have been disasters, but I think after doing a few and seeing a lot in a short space of time, I’ve come up with a nice list of things to [...]
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It’s a wet day before term starts, so I’m reading little bits and piece to keep me sane (also: ranting about dead socialists). I’ve just finished Seth Godin’s The Dip, an 80 page little rant about quitting, and when it is smart to do so. Godin’s idea can be summarised in [...]
Terrence Tao is one of the smartest and most accomplished human beings alive.
Every economist who is not Joseph Stiglitz must click this link and read what Terrence has to say about his time management approach.
Once read, I recommend printing his post out, laminating it, and stapling it to your person.
It stings a little, but it’s [...]
Here’s a small piece I wrote in today’s Irish times. I’m putting the unedited version of the piece up here.
In 1930, the economist JM Keynes wrote Economic Possibilities for our grandchildren. Keynes described his hope for the economic possibilities for his grandchildren’s generation. Some of it he got wrong – he predicted people wouldn’t be [...]
Algorithmic Game Theory is the name given to a subfield where computer science and game theory overlap. The idea is to use the tools of algorithm design and analysis to try and understand economic problems, chiefly as they appear on the internet. The field is about ten years’ old, and there is already a codification [...]
Information and Learning in Markets represents the culmination of fifteen years of Xavier Vives‘ work in applying Bayesian ideas to game theoretic models of finance and the real economy. Vives’ homepage with his working papers is here.
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The book starts off by building simple Cournot models of large markets, showing [...]
Notes for Kendrick, Mercado and Amman’s 2006 Princeton University Press book:
Computational Economics
(Code for the programs in this book is here)
This is a pedagogical book with a lovely idea at the core: teach standard micro and macroeconomic models and principles using computer programs like Excel, Mathematica, MATLAB, and others.
The book takes us through a [...]
…emails I’ve sent since Jan 1, 2008.
Number of emails recieved: 8,934.
Damn!
I’m thinking of declaring email bankruptcy.
The US Economy: Bureau of Labor Statistics The EU: Eurostat The EU with Micro data: OECD . World Poverty/Income Distribution data: IMF World GDP/GNP Data: The Penn World Tables Historical Financial Data: Measuring Worth Irish Macro Data: CSO (Measuring Ireland’s Progress is a great place to start here), the ESRI has excellent Micro data on health.