I spend most of my time reading academic papers --- in the weeds with math and data analytics --- and not much time for books.
I'm also one of those people who finds sitting around and debating an esoteric idea just fundamentally uninteresting. If the idea has merit, find a way to implement or test it. Can't figure that out? Let's have a discussion on that (and then you actually do the work, because otherwise you've just wasted my time). What is politely referred to as "practical".
I also recognize that there are important, human questions that can't be answered with this approach: that's where my work ends and the work of others begin.
I do look forward to having conversations in the future though! It's interesting to think of blockchain as perhaps leading to a 2nd wave of attempts at centrally planned economies...
I def forget sometimes that economists aren’t in a “book field.” I’m in American Studies, and economic intellectual history is one of my favorite things to learn about. nice meeting ya, doc!
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Some are! I definitely don't want to leave you with the impression that all economists are the same as I am. Economics is a wonderfully strange field so it's always tricky to infer that you've met a stereotypical economist.
I'm definitely on the math/data/computational side of the spectrum, but Econ History or Econ Philosophy folks are solidly on the book side.
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And it's the technical stuff with which I'm most unfamiliar—b/c, you know, I'm not an economist. ;) Anyhow, I'll definitely be posting along the intellectual history side a lot here, so—like a shy undergrad in office hours—might I ask for a follow? I'd love some additional accountability to the facts from you! Sort of a peer review, but peer-to-peer on the blockchain.
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My apologies!! I honestly thought I followed you before I typed my response. Thanks for catching that. Now I will go back and check that everyone I intended to follow is, in fact, being followed.
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Thanks!
I’d upvote this, but I’m recharging my voting power (I get why this is a thing in the steem economy, but lord that sounds absurd to me, still). In lieu of a few cents (USD), here’s an emoji promissory note on upvotes to come: 👨💻
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