Economics

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

sarahconstantin

28 Jun 2019 19:40 UTC

62 points

6 comments8 min readLW link

(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Inadequacy and Modesty

Eliezer Yudkowsky

28 Oct 2017 21:51 UTC

149 points

80 comments18 min readLW link

High Stock Prices Make Sense Right Now

johnswentworth

3 Jul 2020 20:16 UTC

81 points

27 comments4 min readLW link

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

Buck

13 Jul 2020 3:01 UTC

161 points

53 comments9 min readLW link

Refactoring EMH – Thoughts following the latest market crash

Alex_Shleizer

28 Feb 2020 15:53 UTC

35 points

16 comments3 min readLW link

Considerations On Cost Disease

Scott Alexander

10 Feb 2017 4:33 UTC

21 points

3 comments22 min readLW link

What Happens During a Recession

Elizabeth

20 Apr 2020 3:03 UTC

49 points

4 comments5 min readLW link

Zoom Technologies, Inc. vs. the Efficient Markets Hypothesis

Zack_M_Davis

11 May 2020 6:00 UTC

69 points

47 comments4 min readLW link

Against Tulip Subsidies

Scott Alexander

6 Jun 2015 4:19 UTC

21 points

3 comments8 min readLW link

Limits of Current US Prediction Markets (PredictIt Case Study)

aphyer

14 Jul 2020 7:24 UTC

167 points

37 comments7 min readLW link

Inadequate Equilibria vs. Governance of the Commons

Martin Sustrik

25 May 2018 13:17 UTC

190 points

19 comments14 min readLW link 2 nominations 3 reviews

Money: The Unit of Caring

Eliezer Yudkowsky

31 Mar 2009 12:35 UTC

133 points

131 comments4 min readLW link

The Cambist and Lord Iron: A Fairy Tale of Economics

Alicorn

19 Dec 2010 2:05 UTC

44 points

40 comments1 min readLW link

Property as Coordination Minimization

Vaniver

4 Aug 2020 19:24 UTC

39 points

35 comments4 min readLW link

Market Rate Food Is Luxury Food

jefftk

23 Nov 2019 15:10 UTC

10 points

12 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Pricing externalities is not necessarily economically efficient

Orborde

9 Nov 2019 12:07 UTC

19 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

(www.daviddfriedman.com)

Using Vickrey auctions as a price discovery mechanism

epiphi

12 Jan 2020 1:00 UTC

16 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(kevinlynagh.com)

Repossessing Degrees

jefftk

13 Jan 2020 21:40 UTC

9 points

14 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Contrarian LW views and their economic implications

Larks

8 Oct 2014 23:48 UTC

22 points

126 comments1 min readLW link

The Chilling Effect of Confiscation

jefftk

25 Apr 2020 2:50 UTC

39 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

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

jmh

26 Apr 2020 13:52 UTC

5 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

Solar system colonisation might not be driven by economics

Stuart_Armstrong

21 Apr 2020 17:10 UTC

26 points

44 comments2 min readLW link

The Economic Consequences of Noise Traders

FactorialCode

14 Jun 2020 17:14 UTC

45 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(www.nber.org)

Highlights From The Comments On Cost Disease

Scott Alexander

17 Feb 2017 7:28 UTC

2 points

0 comments25 min readLW link

The Price Of Glee In China

Scott Alexander

24 Mar 2016 0:12 UTC

13 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

Things Probably Matter

Scott Alexander

21 Jul 2016 2:03 UTC

8 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

The Tragedy of the Anticommons

Kaj_Sotala

15 Mar 2009 17:32 UTC

40 points

47 comments5 min readLW link

Book review: The Complacent Class

Richard_Ngo

13 Oct 2018 19:20 UTC

21 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

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

Richard_Ngo

18 Oct 2018 23:05 UTC

19 points

2 comments5 min readLW link

(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

Book Review: How Asia Works by Joe Studwell

Zvi

18 Feb 2017 18:43 UTC

1 point

0 comments15 min readLW link

Teachers vs. Tutors

[deleted]

26 Oct 2010 16:59 UTC

14 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

jacobjacob

27 Feb 2019 12:58 UTC

84 points

20 comments4 min readLW link

Coordination as a Scarce Resource

johnswentworth

25 Jan 2020 23:32 UTC

112 points

10 comments4 min readLW link

The Costs of Reliability

sarahconstantin

20 Jul 2019 1:20 UTC

127 points

4 comments3 min readLW link

(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Shaping economic incentives for collaborative AGI

Kaj_Sotala

29 Jun 2018 16:26 UTC

47 points

15 comments4 min readLW link

Fixing science via a basic income

Kaj_Sotala

2 Aug 2018 8:30 UTC

30 points

29 comments3 min readLW link

(kajsotala.fi)

Cash transfers are not necessarily wealth transfers

Benquo

1 Dec 2017 10:10 UTC

112 points

36 comments11 min readLW link

(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Tech economics pattern: “Commoditize Your Complement”

gwern

10 May 2018 18:54 UTC

98 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(www.gwern.net)

Zeroing Out

Zvi

5 Nov 2017 16:10 UTC

82 points

8 comments4 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

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

DanielFilan

12 Jan 2020 23:31 UTC

14 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

In Defense of Finance

Jacobian

17 Dec 2018 16:59 UTC

54 points

31 comments1 min readLW link

(putanumonit.com)

Perfect Competition

Zvi

29 Dec 2019 13:30 UTC

42 points

27 comments7 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

The Oil Crisis of 1973

Elizabeth

22 May 2020 15:50 UTC

57 points

9 comments3 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

Preface to the sequence on economic growth

Matthew Barnett

27 Aug 2020 20:29 UTC

45 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

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

MakoYass

28 Apr 2020 7:44 UTC

5 points

17 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Billionaire Economics

Virgil Kurkjian

28 Jul 2020 3:01 UTC

18 points

30 comments1 min readLW link

Living in an Inadequate World

Eliezer Yudkowsky

9 Nov 2017 21:23 UTC

130 points

48 comments20 min readLW link

Oops on Commodity Prices

sarahconstantin

10 Jun 2018 15:40 UTC

153 points

8 comments2 min readLW link

(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Levels of Action

alyssavance

14 Apr 2011 0:18 UTC

126 points

47 comments9 min readLW link

Meditations on Momentum

Richard Meadows

14 Dec 2018 10:53 UTC

109 points

29 comments10 min readLW link

The Power to Judge Startup Ideas

Liron

4 Sep 2019 15:07 UTC

87 points

31 comments8 min readLW link

Competitive Truth-Seeking

SatvikBeri

1 Nov 2017 12:06 UTC

105 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

The Power to Demolish Bad Arguments

Liron

2 Sep 2019 12:57 UTC

85 points

53 comments10 min readLW link

The Mere Cable Channel Addition Paradox

Ghatanathoah

26 Jul 2012 7:20 UTC

81 points

147 comments12 min readLW link

Less Competition, More Meritocracy?

Zvi

20 Jan 2019 2:00 UTC

81 points

13 comments20 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

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

Viliam

5 Jan 2019 19:04 UTC

64 points

16 comments1 min readLW link

Conversational Presentation of Why Automation is Different This Time

ryan_b

17 Jan 2018 22:11 UTC

70 points

25 comments1 min readLW link

The Robots, AI, and Unemployment Anti-FAQ

Eliezer Yudkowsky

25 Jul 2013 18:46 UTC

65 points

268 comments22 min readLW link

Approval Extraction Advertised as Production

Benquo

15 Dec 2019 14:51 UTC

85 points

28 comments19 min readLW link

(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Counterintuitive Comparative Advantage

Wei_Dai

28 Nov 2018 20:33 UTC

80 points

8 comments2 min readLW link

Mazes Sequence Roundup: Final Thoughts and Paths Forward

Zvi

6 Feb 2020 16:10 UTC

66 points

24 comments14 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

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

Zvi

10 Sep 2019 12:10 UTC

57 points

4 comments5 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

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

G Gordon Worley III

18 Nov 2019 22:05 UTC

55 points

17 comments2 min readLW link

(thecorrespondent.com)

How to Make Billions of Dollars Reducing Loneliness

John_Maxwell

30 Aug 2019 17:30 UTC

60 points

32 comments7 min readLW link

Competitive Markets as Distributed Backprop

johnswentworth

10 Nov 2018 16:47 UTC

50 points

8 comments4 min readLW link 2 nominations 1 review

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

Liron

18 Jun 2019 14:52 UTC

45 points

15 comments1 min readLW link

UBI for President

Jacobian

18 Oct 2018 15:09 UTC

45 points

14 comments10 min readLW link

Value of the Long Tail

johnswentworth

26 Feb 2020 17:24 UTC

47 points

7 comments3 min readLW link

Talents

Benquo

18 May 2018 20:30 UTC

48 points

15 comments4 min readLW link

(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

The Tallest Pygmy Effect

Elizabeth

21 Jan 2018 23:00 UTC

52 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

Frequently Asked Questions for Central Banks Undershooting Their Inflation Target

Eliezer Yudkowsky

29 Oct 2017 23:36 UTC

42 points

28 comments35 min readLW link

Book Review: Narconomics

ketchupduck

3 May 2020 1:19 UTC

65 points

11 comments7 min readLW link

Imperfect Competition

Zvi

30 Dec 2019 12:20 UTC

53 points

7 comments10 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Stripping Away the Protections

Zvi

8 Jan 2020 13:10 UTC

43 points

5 comments9 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Why Destructive Value Capture?

Zvi

18 Jun 2018 12:20 UTC

40 points

13 comments4 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

The cost of universal cryonics

handoflixue

26 May 2011 2:33 UTC

39 points

42 comments5 min readLW link

Bias in capital project decision making

jsalvatier

26 May 2011 18:06 UTC

41 points

23 comments4 min readLW link

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

ErickBall

6 Feb 2019 17:38 UTC

35 points

7 comments2 min readLW link

(capx.co)

The Manual Economy

eapache

7 Aug 2020 22:29 UTC

8 points

1 comment4 min readLW link

Front Row Center

Zvi

11 Jun 2018 13:50 UTC

32 points

12 comments2 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Additional arguments for NIMBY

Zvi

11 Oct 2018 20:40 UTC

35 points

10 comments13 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Robin Hanson on Simple, Evidence Backed Models

Raemon

16 Apr 2019 22:22 UTC

44 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

(www.overcomingbias.com)

Awful Austrians

Swimmy

12 Apr 2009 6:06 UTC

34 points

89 comments5 min readLW link

Risk-Free Bonds Aren’t

Eliezer Yudkowsky

22 Jun 2007 22:30 UTC

15 points

40 comments2 min readLW link

Ban the Bear

Eliezer Yudkowsky

19 Sep 2008 18:14 UTC

1 point

39 comments1 min readLW link

Unemployment explanations

Stuart_Armstrong

7 Nov 2014 17:12 UTC

31 points

113 comments7 min readLW link

Book Review: The Captured Economy

Zvi

11 Dec 2017 13:10 UTC

30 points

6 comments8 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

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

ChrisHallquist

16 Jan 2014 7:27 UTC

34 points

234 comments6 min readLW link

Taxing investment income is complicated

paulfchristiano

22 Sep 2019 1:30 UTC

34 points

20 comments2 min readLW link

(sideways-view.com)

The Behavioral Economics of Welfare

Vanessa Kosoy

22 Dec 2017 11:35 UTC

27 points

20 comments2 min readLW link

Finance Followups

Jacobian

17 Jan 2019 17:54 UTC

29 points

8 comments4 min readLW link

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

Eliezer Yudkowsky

31 Jul 2013 20:02 UTC

27 points

28 comments8 min readLW link

Three Parables of Microeconomics

jimrandomh

9 May 2014 18:18 UTC

25 points

40 comments3 min readLW link

The US Already Has A Wealth Tax

jefftk

19 Aug 2020 14:50 UTC

45 points

14 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

The Simple Solow Model of Software Engineering

johnswentworth

8 Apr 2019 23:06 UTC

26 points

15 comments3 min readLW link

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

Benquo

15 Jan 2018 10:10 UTC

32 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Systemic risk: a moral tale of ten insurance companies

Stuart_Armstrong

17 Nov 2014 16:43 UTC

26 points

18 comments2 min readLW link

Valuable economics knowledge available, ironically, for free

Stuart_Armstrong

18 Jul 2013 11:30 UTC

29 points

37 comments6 min readLW link

Effect of Advertising

jefftk

26 Nov 2019 14:30 UTC

27 points

24 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Superintelligence 18: Life in an algorithmic economy

KatjaGrace

13 Jan 2015 2:00 UTC

4 points

52 comments6 min readLW link

The fundamental complementarity of consciousness and work

KatjaGrace

28 Mar 2018 1:20 UTC

26 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 C

24 Aug 2020 20:58 UTC

12 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

Hoarding and Shortages

jefftk

25 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?

Dagon

2 Feb 2020 17:03 UTC

19 points

28 comments1 min readLW link

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

bgold

10 Jul 2019 1:23 UTC

22 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

Against boots theory

philh

14 Sep 2020 13:20 UTC

30 points

14 comments6 min readLW link

(reasonableapproximation.net)

Comparative advantage and when to blow up your island

dynomight

12 Sep 2020 6:20 UTC

102 points

24 comments7 min readLW link

(dyno-might.github.io)