Lars P. Syll

Margaret Thatcher väckte med sin nyliberala politik upprörda känslor. I UR Bildningsbyrån diskuterar yours truly och Gunnela Björk järnladyn och hennes intellektuella och politiska arv. Här kan du lyssna på programmet i sin helhet. I Sverige har vi idag en centerpartistisk partiledare med en meritlista som säkert skulle imponerat på Thatcher. Ett axplock av vad fru Lööf argumenterat och motionerat för under åren: Inför plattskatt (lägre skatt för höginkomsttagare) Avskaffa...

CDU-Hoffnung Friedrich Merz … Vor 14 Jahren soll Friedrich Merz seinen Laptop am Berliner Ostbahnhof verloren haben. Doch der damalige Unions-Fraktionsvize hatte Glück, ein Obdachloser fand das Gerät und gab es zurück. Nun erinnert er sich … In der „Taz“ erzählt der heute 53-Jährige nun, was er und sein Kumpel Micha sahen, als sie den Laptop einschalteten … Er hoffte auf einen angemessenen Finderlohn. Friedrich Merz hatte eine andere Idee. Enrico J....

Econometrics — the scientific illusion of an empirical failure Ed Leamer’s Tantalus on the Road to Asymptopia is one of yours truly’s favourite critiques of econometrics, and for the benefit of those who are not versed in the econometric jargon, this handy summary gives the gist of it in plain English: Most work in econometrics and regression analysis is made on the assumption that the researcher has a theoretical model that is ‘true.’ Based on this belief...

How economists reshaped the world [embedded content] To yours truly, the real value of Appelbaum’s meticulously researched history of how economists have come to increasingly influence public policies in modern societies, is that it shows how fundamentally ideological economics is. Of course, you never hear anyone at our seminars telling the lecturer that the assumptions on which his models are built are only made for ideological reasons. But that does not...

And yet the menace of the years shall find me unafraid A great poem. It helped one of the greatest men that has walked this earth keep hope alive during twenty-seven years in prison. Long live his unconquerable soul. [embedded content]

 [embedded content] Non perderti per niente al mondo lo spettacolo di arte varia di un uomo innamorato di te.

Why I am not a Bayesian Assume you’re a Bayesian turkey and hold a nonzero probability belief in the hypothesis H that “people are nice vegetarians that do not eat turkeys and that every day I see the sun rise confirms my belief.” For every day you survive, you update your belief according to Bayes’ Rule P(H|e) = [P(e|H)P(H)]/P(e), where evidence e stands for “not being eaten” and P(e|H) = 1. Given that there do exist other hypotheses than H, P(e) is less...

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Something repellent clings to the lie, and though the consciousness of this was indeed beaten into one with the old whip, this simultaneously said something about the master of the dungeon. The mistake lies in all too much honesty. Whoever lies, is ashamed, because in every lie they must experience what is degrading in the existing state of the world … Such shame saps the energy of the lies of those who are more subtly organized. They do it badly, and only thereby does the lie...