Alex Peek blog
Friday, June 30, 2017
Chess metaphor for macroeconomics
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Photo source: Wikimedia Commons , MichaelMaggs Photo license: CC BY-SA 3.0 I think of macroeconomics as being like a chess game. Sim...
Saturday, June 17, 2017
What is economics?
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Photo source: Wikimedia Commons , AndrewHorne What is economics? Here is my definition: Economics is the study of the productio...
Sunday, June 4, 2017
EconTalk: six part series on econometrics
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Photo source: Wikimedia Commons , Meaghan O'Malley Photo license: CC BY 2.0 In March 2016, Noah Smith had a blog post titled, R...
Monday, May 29, 2017
Macroeconomic experiments
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In an earlier post I provided a list of 10 economic statements from famous economists. For this post I attempted to create a list of mac...
Saturday, May 20, 2017
Tjalling Koopmans: pioneer of optimization models
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Photo source: Wikimedia Commons , Eric Koch, CC0 1.0 Tjalling Koopmans (1910-1985) was an influential economist best known for optim...
Pierre-Simon Laplace and probability theory
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Photo source: Wikimedia Commons , Sophie Feytaud Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749-1827) was an influential mathematician and scientist best...
Marie Curie and scientific discovery
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Photo source: Wikimedia Commons Marie Curie (1867-1934) was a Polish chemist best known for her pioneering work in radioactivity. Phy...
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