Meetup : Philadelphia LW: Macroeconomics crash course and general meetup
Discussion article for the meetup : Philadelphia LW: Macroeconomics crash course and general meetup
We’ll be meeting at the Starbucks in Macy’s Center City (conveniently located near Suburban Station for you traingoers!) from 6:30 − 8:30 P.M.
This week’s featured topic will be a “crash course” in macroeconomics from one of our members, who also happens to be a graduate student in economics, in continuation of some fairly lengthy and interesting economic discussions that came out of our first meetup in January (not that you shouldn’t come if you weren’t there...please feel free to stop by regardless of your history with either LW meetups or economics in general!).
Agenda will also include general self-improvement, planning future meetups, and, of course, better getting to know new members and attendees from last meetup alike. We hope to see you there!
Also: please feel free to request an invitation to our Google group (http://groups.google.com/group/lesswrong-philadelphia) if you would like to discuss meetup ideas (including the details of this upcoming one) in real time, and/or would generally like to start talking to people prior to convening in meat space!
UPDATE: We’ve moved the location to a Starbucks (also near Suburban station) which closes at 9 P.M., as we discovered earlier this week that the previous location would have closed at 7!
Topic material and start time will be the same...we’re just moving the meeting place a short walking distance away.
I’ll be there.
FYI, the marker on the google map is pointing to the wrong place, even though the address is correct (and works when I type it into google maps myself). La Colombe is just to the southwest of city hall, and looks out at it.
IMHO, “Macroeconomics” is a diseased discipline, for a number of reasons. If you want to gain a rigorous yet reasonably intuitive understanding of the economic phenomena which are usually addressed by “macro”, you could do worse than looking at monetary disequilibrium theory, as addressed by such authors as Robert Clower and Leland Yeager, or (on the more Austrian side) George Selgin and Lawrence H. White. Economist Nicholas Rowe, writing on the WCI blog, is a good popularizer of this school of thought.
I’m coming. Wouldn’t miss it for the world. I’m probably bringing my best friend along, who is a strong christian and consciously engages in self-delusion in order to avoid dark spots and stay productive. He can say some very useful things about personal finance, but mostly I just want to see what kind of effect this has on him.
Looks great! I’ll be there.