January 17, 2007

Beinhocker Book on Wealth, Complexity, and Economic Theory

Lynne Kiesling Mark Thoma draws our attention to a recent Martin Wolf column in the FT, discussing complexity and evolution as a methodological framework for economic modeling and analysis. [M]ost [economists] must also know that the economy is not characterised by perfect foresight and equilibrium, but by trial and error and evolution. That was the …

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Tierneylab

Lynne Kiesling Hey! John Tierney has a blog at the NYTimes to accompany his new gig as a Science Times columnist. He’s got, for instance, an interesting post with some behavioral economics insights into being a tightwad or a spendthrift. I tend to vascillate between the two, so I found this particularly interesting.