Saturday, January 19, 2019

Meditations about economics


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This post is a list of notes I had between April 2016 and January 2017. During that time, whenever I got a new idea or new question, I would write it on the back cover of my research notebooks. I would use these notes to meditate about the nature of economics and establish my goals for future research. This post post was originally posted in January 2017.

Ranking schools of economics
Economic knowledge test
Goals of economics
Production process of all good and services
Goal of an economist
Correct ways to use mathematics in economics
Wikipedia articles on economics
Ranking heterodox economic methods
Reorganizing my notebooks
Central bank methods
World's best economic models
Real life demand and supply for all markets
Corporate data website
Ranking competitors by profit and profit margin
Tree of economic thought
Economic policy list
Table for economic school's opinion on topics
Table for economic school's agreement on theories
Analysis of economic theories
Utopian economics
What is the ideal 21st century world economy?
Top 100 economic debates
Reconciliation of economic thought
Normative versus positive economics
Anti-positivism versus positivism
List of economists
What is Paul Samuelson's system?
What is Adam Smith's system?
What is Alfred Marshall's system?
What is John Maynard Keynes' system?
Book of quotes and rebuttals with moderators asking questions
Average systematic behavior
Who is the best at forecasting?
Autodidact economy
Regress everything against GDP growth rate
U.S. corporate outlook
Technology forecasting
Testing economic hypotheses
Newspapers most similar to The Economist
Most innovative universities in the world
Target audience of Econ Factbook
YouTube videos of economists
Consolidation of the best econometric studies
Analysis of Wealth of Nations
Methods in econometrics
History of econometrics
Social science philosophers
Modern economic models
Re-examination of statistics and correlation
Best economists prior to Adam Smith
Neoclassical models: Marshall and Samuelson
Statistical vocabulary
Enlightenment philosophy
History of economic thought
Econ Factbook 1776
Keynesian variations
History of economic models
Methods in mathematical economics
Reconciliation of papers and books
Political parties around the world
History of the scientific method
History of philosophy
Economist database excel document
Econ Factbook econometrics
History of foreign currency rates
D.C. think tanks and organizations
Scientific method of economics
Finite economic data available
History of economic textbooks
History of asset returns
Fundamental value of the S&P 500
Welfare states
Ideal policy agenda
History of political parties
Econ Factbook notecards
Health around the world
Visualized U.S. financial system
History of business
History of technology
History of economic journals
Ranking Nobel Prize in economics winners
Best economics universities
Importance of Adam Smith
Economist notecards
Event notecards
Emotional view of economics
Definitions of economics and capitalism
History of Nobel Prize winner: 1 chapter for each
Best economic reports publicly available
Cliometrics
Citation analysis
Economist interviews
Decades approach to growth
Major goal of economics: longer lifespan and happiness
Economic history integrated with relevant theories
Principles of heterodox economics
Quotes to support Econ Factbook
Michael Burry
Writing economic papers
Comparison of tax methods
History of GDP, prices and innovation
Problem solving economics
Macroeconomic diagnostics
Skeleton theory of macroeconomic data
Perspectives about economics from famous economists
How to monitor the economy
Ethics and economics
Science of economy
Specific narrow economic questions
Country history documentaries on YouTube
Data structures should be a debated topic
Structured data for specific industries
Systematic knowledge
Forecasting performance
What can academic economists learn from hedge fund analysis?
Expansion of Ha-Joon Chang's schools of thought table
Theory examples and counterexamples
How to be more scientific?
Favorite / best economic theory
What caused economics to go bad?
What caused the 2008 financial crisis?
Economists list their top 10 papers
Empirical culture
Teaching oneself economics
Discovering the unknown
Organizing blogs
What does Noah Smith believe?
Infographics as dashboards
Teaching versus science
Do hedge funds use science?
Is Wikipedia science?
Is Aristotle a scientist?
Are animals scientists?
Are infographics science?
Narrative: history of economic thought
Analysis tools
Theories = Statements
Paper introductions
Collective consciousness of economists
History of economic thought: chapters of the narrative
Organization of theories
Comparing previous narratives on the history of economic thought
How does the economy work?
Economics as a religion
Certainty
Economic scenarios
Invisible hand
Basic laws of utility
GDP = Monetized utility
Theories are stamps you can apply to reality
Falsification methods
Economics as a users manual
Method for properly matching history with theory
Statements in economics
Practical theories
Economist with the most accurate view of the economy

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