Economics

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Book Review: Why Are The Prices So Damn High?

sarahconstantin28 Jun 2019 19:40 UTC

61 points

7 comments8 min readLW link 1 nomination

(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Inadequacy and Modesty

Eliezer Yudkowsky28 Oct 2017 21:51 UTC

114 points

80 comments18 min readLW link

High Stock Prices Make Sense Right Now

johnswentworth3 Jul 2020 20:16 UTC

79 points

27 comments4 min readLW link

Six economics misconceptions of mine which I’ve resolved over the last few years

Buck13 Jul 2020 3:01 UTC

150 points

53 comments9 min readLW link

The Costs of Reliability

sarahconstantin20 Jul 2019 1:20 UTC

140 points

12 comments3 min readLW link 2 nominations 2 reviews

(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Refactoring EMH – Thoughts following the latest market crash

Alex_Shleizer28 Feb 2020 15:53 UTC

35 points

16 comments3 min readLW link

Considerations On Cost Disease

Scott Alexander10 Feb 2017 4:33 UTC

28 points

4 comments22 min readLW link

What Happens During a Recession

Elizabeth20 Apr 2020 3:03 UTC

49 points

4 comments5 min readLW link

Zoom Technologies, Inc. vs. the Efficient Markets Hypothesis

Zack_M_Davis11 May 2020 6:00 UTC

68 points

47 comments4 min readLW link

Against Tulip Subsidies

Scott Alexander6 Jun 2015 4:19 UTC

32 points

4 comments8 min readLW link

Limits of Current US Prediction Markets (PredictIt Case Study)

aphyer14 Jul 2020 7:24 UTC

178 points

49 comments7 min readLW link

Inadequate Equilibria vs. Governance of the Commons

Martin Sustrik25 May 2018 13:17 UTC

166 points

18 comments14 min readLW link

Money: The Unit of Caring

Eliezer Yudkowsky31 Mar 2009 12:35 UTC

161 points

132 comments4 min readLW link

The Cambist and Lord Iron: A Fairy Tale of Economics

Alicorn19 Dec 2010 2:05 UTC

57 points

40 comments1 min readLW link

Property as Coordination Minimization

Vaniver4 Aug 2020 19:24 UTC

38 points

35 comments4 min readLW link

Your Cheerful Price

Eliezer Yudkowsky13 Feb 2021 5:41 UTC

198 points

76 comments17 min readLW link

A whirlwind tour of Ethereum finance

cata2 Mar 2021 9:36 UTC

199 points

52 comments11 min readLW link

[Question] Should government set interest rates?

yhoiseth6 Jul 2021 13:57 UTC

1 point

8 comments1 min readLW link

Market Rate Food Is Luxury Food

jefftk23 Nov 2019 15:10 UTC

11 points

12 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Pricing externalities is not necessarily economically efficient

Orborde9 Nov 2019 12:07 UTC

19 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

(www.daviddfriedman.com)

Using Vickrey auctions as a price discovery mechanism

epiphi12 Jan 2020 1:00 UTC

16 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(kevinlynagh.com)

Repossessing Degrees

jefftk13 Jan 2020 21:40 UTC

9 points

14 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Contrarian LW views and their economic implications

Larks8 Oct 2014 23:48 UTC

30 points

126 comments1 min readLW link

The Chilling Effect of Confiscation

jefftk25 Apr 2020 2:50 UTC

39 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] Should we be reassessing the argument for globalization?

jmh26 Apr 2020 13:52 UTC

5 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

Solar system colonisation might not be driven by economics

Stuart_Armstrong21 Apr 2020 17:10 UTC

26 points

44 comments2 min readLW link

The Economic Consequences of Noise Traders

FactorialCode14 Jun 2020 17:14 UTC

45 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(www.nber.org)

Highlights From The Comments On Cost Disease

Scott Alexander17 Feb 2017 7:28 UTC

4 points

1 comment25 min readLW link

The Price Of Glee In China

Scott Alexander24 Mar 2016 0:12 UTC

13 points

1 comment5 min readLW link

Things Probably Matter

Scott Alexander21 Jul 2016 2:03 UTC

9 points

1 comment5 min readLW link

The Tragedy of the Anticommons

Kaj_Sotala15 Mar 2009 17:32 UTC

43 points

47 comments5 min readLW link

Book review: The Complacent Class

Richard_Ngo13 Oct 2018 19:20 UTC

20 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

Book review: 23 things they don’t tell you about capitalism

Richard_Ngo18 Oct 2018 23:05 UTC

20 points

2 comments5 min readLW link

(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

Book Review: How Asia Works by Joe Studwell

Zvi18 Feb 2017 18:43 UTC

1 point

0 comments15 min readLW link

Teachers vs. Tutors

[deleted]26 Oct 2010 16:59 UTC

18 points

21 comments1 min readLW link

Mazes and Duality

johnswentworth and jacobjacob

14 Jul 2020 19:54 UTC

49 points

7 comments6 min readLW link

Unconscious Economics

jacobjacob27 Feb 2019 12:58 UTC

100 points

30 comments4 min readLW link 2 nominations 3 reviews

Coordination as a Scarce Resource

johnswentworth25 Jan 2020 23:32 UTC

126 points

11 comments4 min readLW link

Shaping economic incentives for collaborative AGI

Kaj_Sotala29 Jun 2018 16:26 UTC

45 points

15 comments4 min readLW link

Fixing science via a basic income

Kaj_Sotala2 Aug 2018 8:30 UTC

30 points

29 comments3 min readLW link

(kajsotala.fi)

Cash transfers are not necessarily wealth transfers

Benquo1 Dec 2017 10:10 UTC

59 points

36 comments11 min readLW link

(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Tech economics pattern: “Commoditize Your Complement”

gwern10 May 2018 18:54 UTC

40 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(www.gwern.net)

Zeroing Out

Zvi5 Nov 2017 16:10 UTC

45 points

8 comments4 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] How has the cost of clothing insulation changed since 1970 in the USA?

DanielFilan12 Jan 2020 23:31 UTC

14 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

Approval Extraction Advertised as Production

Benquo15 Dec 2019 14:51 UTC

83 points

39 comments19 min readLW link 2 nominations 3 reviews

(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

In Defense of Finance

Jacob Falkovich17 Dec 2018 16:59 UTC

51 points

31 comments1 min readLW link

(putanumonit.com)

Perfect Competition

Zvi29 Dec 2019 13:30 UTC

46 points

29 comments7 min readLW link 1 nomination

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

The Oil Crisis of 1973

Elizabeth22 May 2020 15:50 UTC

68 points

9 comments3 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

Preface to the sequence on economic growth

Matthew Barnett27 Aug 2020 20:29 UTC

46 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

Comparative Advantage is Not About Trade

johnswentworth22 Sep 2020 18:43 UTC

83 points

26 comments3 min readLW link

It’s not economically inefficient for a UBI to reduce recipient’s employment

paulfchristiano22 Nov 2020 16:40 UTC

82 points

60 comments4 min readLW link

(sideways-view.com)

Anti-EMH Evidence (and a plea for help)

Wei_Dai5 Dec 2020 18:29 UTC

91 points

42 comments5 min readLW link

Vaccination with the EMH

AllAmericanBreakfast29 Dec 2020 3:05 UTC

17 points

17 comments8 min readLW link

Would Your Real Preferences Please Stand Up?

Scott Alexander8 Aug 2009 22:57 UTC

59 points

132 comments4 min readLW link

Exponential growth is the baseline

jasoncrawford22 Feb 2021 2:08 UTC

27 points

2 comments6 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

Coronavirus crash vs history

bfinn14 Jun 2021 10:55 UTC

39 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] If instead of giving out dividends, public companies bought total market index funds, which companies would be the biggest?

Mati_Roy15 Jun 2021 17:07 UTC

8 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

The Point of Trade

Eliezer Yudkowsky22 Jun 2021 17:56 UTC

144 points

75 comments4 min readLW link

Improving capital gains taxes

paulfchristiano9 Jul 2021 5:20 UTC

56 points

38 comments3 min readLW link

(sideways-view.com)

Some thoughts on David Roodman’s GWP model and its relation to AI timelines

Tom Davidson19 Jul 2021 22:59 UTC

30 points

1 comment8 min readLW link

A speculative incentive design: self-determined price commitments as a way of averting monopoly

MakoYass28 Apr 2020 7:44 UTC

5 points

17 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Billionaire Economics

Virgil Kurkjian28 Jul 2020 3:01 UTC

16 points

30 comments1 min readLW link

Living in an Inadequate World

Eliezer Yudkowsky9 Nov 2017 21:23 UTC

81 points

48 comments20 min readLW link

Oops on Commodity Prices

sarahconstantin10 Jun 2018 15:40 UTC

143 points

8 comments2 min readLW link

(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Levels of Action

alyssavance14 Apr 2011 0:18 UTC

165 points

47 comments9 min readLW link

Meditations on Momentum

Richard Meadows14 Dec 2018 10:53 UTC

99 points

30 comments10 min readLW link

The Power to Judge Startup Ideas

Liron4 Sep 2019 15:07 UTC

86 points

31 comments8 min readLW link

Competitive Truth-Seeking

SatvikBeri1 Nov 2017 12:06 UTC

61 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

The Power to Demolish Bad Arguments

Liron2 Sep 2019 12:57 UTC

88 points

77 comments11 min readLW link 3 nominations 6 reviews

The Mere Cable Channel Addition Paradox

Ghatanathoah26 Jul 2012 7:20 UTC

106 points

147 comments12 min readLW link

Less Competition, More Meritocracy?

Zvi20 Jan 2019 2:00 UTC

84 points

19 comments20 min readLW link 2 nominations 3 reviews

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] Does anti-malaria charity destroy the local anti-malaria industry?

Viliam5 Jan 2019 19:04 UTC

61 points

16 comments1 min readLW link

Conversational Presentation of Why Automation is Different This Time

ryan_b17 Jan 2018 22:11 UTC

33 points

26 comments1 min readLW link

The Robots, AI, and Unemployment Anti-FAQ

Eliezer Yudkowsky25 Jul 2013 18:46 UTC

81 points

268 comments22 min readLW link

Counterintuitive Comparative Advantage

Wei_Dai28 Nov 2018 20:33 UTC

81 points

8 comments2 min readLW link

Mazes Sequence Roundup: Final Thoughts and Paths Forward

Zvi6 Feb 2020 16:10 UTC

79 points

25 comments14 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Free-to-Play Games: Three Key Trade-Offs

Zvi10 Sep 2019 12:10 UTC

47 points

4 comments5 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

The new dot com bubble is here: it’s called online advertising

G Gordon Worley III18 Nov 2019 22:05 UTC

50 points

17 comments2 min readLW link

(thecorrespondent.com)

How to Make Billions of Dollars Reducing Loneliness

John_Maxwell30 Aug 2019 17:30 UTC

59 points

32 comments7 min readLW link

Competitive Markets as Distributed Backprop

johnswentworth10 Nov 2018 16:47 UTC

46 points

10 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Is the “business cycle” an actual economic principle?

Liron18 Jun 2019 14:52 UTC

43 points

15 comments1 min readLW link

UBI for President

Jacob Falkovich18 Oct 2018 15:09 UTC

42 points

14 comments10 min readLW link

Value of the Long Tail

johnswentworth26 Feb 2020 17:24 UTC

48 points

7 comments3 min readLW link

Talents

Benquo18 May 2018 20:30 UTC

18 points

15 comments4 min readLW link

(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

The Tallest Pygmy Effect

Elizabeth21 Jan 2018 23:00 UTC

20 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

Frequently Asked Questions for Central Banks Undershooting Their Inflation Target

Eliezer Yudkowsky29 Oct 2017 23:36 UTC

28 points

28 comments35 min readLW link

Book Review: Narconomics

ketchupduck3 May 2020 1:19 UTC

69 points

11 comments7 min readLW link

Imperfect Competition

Zvi30 Dec 2019 12:20 UTC

53 points

8 comments10 min readLW link 1 nomination

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Stripping Away the Protections

Zvi8 Jan 2020 13:10 UTC

45 points

6 comments9 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Why Destructive Value Capture?

Zvi18 Jun 2018 12:20 UTC

29 points

13 comments4 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

The cost of universal cryonics

handoflixue26 May 2011 2:33 UTC

52 points

42 comments5 min readLW link

Bias in capital project decision making

jsalvatier26 May 2011 18:06 UTC

56 points

23 comments4 min readLW link

Is the World Getting Better? A brief summary of recent debate

ErickBall6 Feb 2019 17:38 UTC

35 points

7 comments2 min readLW link

(capx.co)

The Manual Economy

eapache7 Aug 2020 22:29 UTC

8 points

1 comment4 min readLW link

Front Row Center

Zvi11 Jun 2018 13:50 UTC

30 points

12 comments2 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Additional arguments for NIMBY

Zvi11 Oct 2018 20:40 UTC

32 points

10 comments13 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Robin Hanson on Simple, Evidence Backed Models

Raemon16 Apr 2019 22:22 UTC

36 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

(www.overcomingbias.com)

Awful Austrians

Swimmy12 Apr 2009 6:06 UTC

37 points

91 comments5 min readLW link

Risk-Free Bonds Aren’t

Eliezer Yudkowsky22 Jun 2007 22:30 UTC

20 points

40 comments2 min readLW link

Ban the Bear

Eliezer Yudkowsky19 Sep 2008 18:14 UTC

0 points

39 comments1 min readLW link

Unemployment explanations

Stuart_Armstrong7 Nov 2014 17:12 UTC

43 points

113 comments7 min readLW link

Book Review: The Captured Economy

Zvi11 Dec 2017 13:10 UTC

14 points

6 comments8 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Things I Wish They’d Taught Me When I Was Younger: Why Money Is Awesome

ChrisHallquist16 Jan 2014 7:27 UTC

45 points

234 comments6 min readLW link

Taxing investment income is complicated

paulfchristiano22 Sep 2019 1:30 UTC

32 points

20 comments2 min readLW link

(sideways-view.com)

The Behavioral Economics of Welfare

Vanessa Kosoy22 Dec 2017 11:35 UTC

9 points

20 comments2 min readLW link

Finance Followups

Jacob Falkovich17 Jan 2019 17:54 UTC

26 points

8 comments4 min readLW link

Q for GiveWell: What is GiveDirectly’s mechanism of action?

Eliezer Yudkowsky31 Jul 2013 20:02 UTC

31 points

28 comments8 min readLW link

Three Parables of Microeconomics

jimrandomh9 May 2014 18:18 UTC

33 points

40 comments3 min readLW link

The US Already Has A Wealth Tax

jefftk19 Aug 2020 14:50 UTC

44 points

14 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

The Simple Solow Model of Software Engineering

johnswentworth8 Apr 2019 23:06 UTC

25 points

15 comments3 min readLW link

What strange and ancient things might we find beneath the ice?

Benquo15 Jan 2018 10:10 UTC

15 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Systemic risk: a moral tale of ten insurance companies

Stuart_Armstrong17 Nov 2014 16:43 UTC

37 points

18 comments2 min readLW link

Valuable economics knowledge available, ironically, for free

Stuart_Armstrong18 Jul 2013 11:30 UTC

38 points

37 comments6 min readLW link

Effect of Advertising

jefftk26 Nov 2019 14:30 UTC

25 points

24 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Superintelligence 18: Life in an algorithmic economy

KatjaGrace13 Jan 2015 2:00 UTC

10 points

52 comments6 min readLW link

The fundamental complementarity of consciousness and work

KatjaGrace28 Mar 2018 1:20 UTC

9 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

(meteuphoric.wordpress.com)

[Question] Why hasn’t there been research on the effectiveness of zinc for Covid-19?

Rudi C24 Aug 2020 20:58 UTC

12 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

Hoarding and Shortages

jefftk25 Feb 2020 18:40 UTC

20 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] Money isn’t real. When you donate money to a charity, how does it actually help?

Dagon2 Feb 2020 17:03 UTC

17 points

28 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Do bond yield curve inversions really indicate there is likely to be a recession?

bgold10 Jul 2019 1:23 UTC

20 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

Against boots theory

philh14 Sep 2020 13:20 UTC

34 points

14 comments6 min readLW link

(reasonableapproximation.net)

Comparative advantage and when to blow up your island

dynomight12 Sep 2020 6:20 UTC

139 points

40 comments1 min readLW link

(dynomight.net)

I have discovered a new kind of unemployment.

Nathan Brooks24 Sep 2020 1:04 UTC

12 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

(seekingalpha.com)

Livestreaming monetisation models aka What do camgirls have in common with Twitch streamers?

characteristics19 Sep 2020 18:57 UTC

11 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

(lillianli.substack.com)

Solar One Year In

jefftk22 Nov 2019 15:20 UTC

19 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

AndrewH’s observation and opportunity costs

Scott Alexander23 Jul 2009 11:36 UTC

29 points

61 comments2 min readLW link

It’s the Same Five Dollars!

Z_M_Davis8 Mar 2009 7:23 UTC

26 points

32 comments1 min readLW link

Intelligence in Economics

Eliezer Yudkowsky30 Oct 2008 21:17 UTC

12 points

12 comments5 min readLW link

When Money Is Abundant, Knowledge Is The Real Wealth

johnswentworth3 Nov 2020 17:34 UTC

213 points

50 comments5 min readLW link

Permitted Possibilities, & Locality

Eliezer Yudkowsky3 Dec 2008 21:20 UTC

18 points

22 comments12 min readLW link

Sustained Strong Recursion

Eliezer Yudkowsky5 Dec 2008 21:03 UTC

14 points

47 comments9 min readLW link

Real-world examples of money-pumping?

sixes_and_sevens25 Apr 2013 13:49 UTC

28 points

97 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How can labour productivity growth be an indicator of automation?

Polytopos16 Nov 2020 21:16 UTC

2 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

Macroeconomics, The Lucas Critique, Microfoundations, and Modeling in General

Matt_Simpson6 Jun 2009 4:35 UTC

0 points

13 comments3 min readLW link

Less wrong economic policy

G Gordon Worley III9 Jun 2009 20:11 UTC

7 points

32 comments1 min readLW link

The Instrumental Value of Your Own Time

Mass_Driver14 Jul 2010 7:57 UTC

30 points

45 comments12 min readLW link

Mandating Information Disclosure vs. Banning Deceptive Contract Terms

David_J_Balan20 Dec 2009 20:55 UTC

30 points

77 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] AI Winter Is Coming—How to profit from it?

maximkazhenkov5 Dec 2020 20:23 UTC

10 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

How Lesswrong helped me make $25K: A rational pricing strategy

kareemabukhadra21 Dec 2020 20:20 UTC

50 points

21 comments3 min readLW link

Leaky Delegation: You are not a Commodity

Darmani25 Jan 2021 2:04 UTC

253 points

32 comments15 min readLW link

Would the Real Economy Please Stand Up

eapache28 Dec 2020 14:05 UTC

22 points

9 comments4 min readLW link

Efficiency Wages: A Double-Edged Sword

aaronb5011 Jan 2021 4:43 UTC

6 points

7 comments5 min readLW link

(aaronbergman.substack.com)

[Question] Is the influence of money pervasive, even on LessWrong?

shanen2 Feb 2021 20:22 UTC

−1 points

33 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How might cryptocurrencies affect AGI timelines?

Telofy28 Feb 2021 19:16 UTC

9 points

40 comments2 min readLW link

Can an economy keep on growing?

invertedpassion16 Mar 2021 9:55 UTC

0 points

12 comments6 min readLW link

Some things I’ve learned in college

aaronb5025 Mar 2021 21:30 UTC

22 points

1 comment7 min readLW link

(aaronbergman.substack.com)

Buying a house and making friends in unexpected places

dominicq28 Mar 2021 14:35 UTC

28 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

The National Dashboard and Human Progress

maxa15 Apr 2021 19:21 UTC

6 points

3 comments7 min readLW link

(max2c.com)

Networks of Trust vs Markets

Henrik Karlsson31 May 2021 19:59 UTC

89 points

22 comments5 min readLW link

Intro to Debt Crises

Connor_Flexman28 Jun 2021 23:50 UTC

40 points

4 comments10 min readLW link

Causes of a Debt Crisis—Economic

Connor_Flexman1 Jul 2021 22:46 UTC

30 points

11 comments8 min readLW link

The Efficient Market Hypothesis in Research

libai8 Jul 2021 17:00 UTC

11 points

9 comments3 min readLW link

The Bullwhip Effect

aysajan13 Jul 2021 20:40 UTC

17 points

11 comments4 min readLW link

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