Lars P. Syll

Ayn Rand — one of history’s biggest psychopaths Now, I don’t care to discuss the alleged complaints American Indians have against this country. I believe, with good reason, the most unsympathetic Hollywood portrayal of Indians and what they did to the white man. They had no right to a country merely because they were born here and then acted like savages. The white man did not conquer this country … Since the Indians did not have the concept of property or...

Racial bias in the use of force by police Our analysis indicates that existing empirical work in this area is producing a misleading portrait of evidence as to the severity of racial bias in police behavior. Replicating and extending the study of police behavior in New York in Fryer (2019), we show that the consequences of ignoring the selective process that generates police data are severe, leading analysts to dramatically underestimate or conceal...

När penningsystemet inte levererar Ett ännu tyngre ansvar bär regeringen som trots den lägsta statsskulden på 40 år valt att fortsätta betala av ännu mer. Den offentliga skuldsättningen i Sverige väntas 2021 sjunka under 30 procent av BNP, vilket innebär att regeringen är skyldig enligt lag att förklara för Riksdagen hur det kommer sig att man inte spenderat mera pengar. Regeringens tvångsmässiga avbetalningar har uppmärksammats i internationell...

Discovering causes from correlations .[embedded content]

MMT è due cose: è una lente di osservazione dei processi di creazione e circolazione del denaro, ed è una ricetta per la piena occupazione e la stabilità dei prezzi. Quanto alla prima, i contributi migliori di MMT sono quelli che, sviscerando i nessi tecnici tra banca centrale, banche e Tesoro, dimostrano che il denaro a disposizione della spesa pubblica proviene sempre, inevitabilmente, dalla banca centrale, e che la differenza tra finanziamento sul mercato e monetizzazione...

The gender wage gap Uber has conducted a study of internal pay differentials between men and women, which they describe as “gender blind” … The study found a 7% pay gap in favor of men. They present their findings as proof that there are issues unrelated to gender that impact driver pay. They quantify the reasons for the gap as follows: Where: 20% is due to where people choose to drive (routes/neighborhoods). Experience: 30% is due to experience … Speed:...

C’n’est pas votre argent qui f’ra mon bonheur .[embedded content]

We can either let theory guide us in our attempt to estimate causal relationships from data … or we don’t let theory guide us. If we let theory guide us, our causal inferences will be ‘incredible’ because our theoretical knowledge is itself not certain … If we do not let theory guide us, we have no good reason to believe that our causal conclusions are true either of the experimental population or of other populations because we have no understanding of the mechanisms that are...

The problems we face when using instrumental variables (student stuff) .[embedded content]

Finding the cace (student stuff) .[embedded content]