Honesty in Pandemic Modelling
This fine post by Maria Chikina (Pitt) and Wesley Pegden (CMU) reaches important if unpalatable conclusions, including: “There is a
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Murky data calls into question quarantine strategy (New FT oped)
My oped on covid 19 that the FT has just kindly published, emphasizes we are operating in a fog —
Read MoreConflating Convenience with Correctness
My email and facebook feed is filled with pictures and videos of exponential growth functions. The flood originates, I
Read MoreHow reliable does a test need to be in order to be used for screening?
A pro-screening friend posed this question — in response to my strong objections to mass screening. To which I replied:
Read MoreWhat the seasonal flu teaches us about dealing with the coronavirus scare
Comparisons of coronavirus infections to the mundane seasonal ‘flu have invited widespread mockery. In fact, the comparison is oddly and
Read MoreMaking Economics More Useful. Final typeset version posted.
The compositor has sent the “final” version of Making Economics More Useful: How Technological Eclecticism Could Help (though the official
Read MoreEnding Repo Madness (Wall Street Journal oped)
A Swedish friend, employed in New York by a famously prudent Swedish bank, kindly invited me to lunch last month.
Read MoreQuestions about the practical utility of Randomized Control Trials
I got a “revise and resubmit” for my paper on making economics more useful on the very day the Nobel
Read MoreJust completed case-history of Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (CABG)
Srikant Datar, Fabio Villa, and I are happy (and relieved) to complete this case history on the evolution of coronary
Read MoreA Pragmatic Libertarian’s Angst about Immigration (Project Syndicate oped)
I am a staunch free-trader with strong but pragmatic libertarian leanings. I am also an immigrant (of “color” in the
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