Lars P. Syll

Svensk skollag — ett skämt När Carina lyfte ut en störande elev ur klassrummet anmäldes hon av föräldrarna. Både Skolinspektionen och polisen kom fram till att hon handlat korrekt. Ändå krävdes hennes arbetsgivare på böter för kränkning av eleven. Och själv kände hon sig pressad att sluta sin anställning. Lärare har rätt att rent fysiskt tillrättavisa störande elever. Men de som gör det, och blir anmälda, riskerar sitt jobb … I september 2018, nästan ett år...

Knut Wicksell — le origini della Teoria Monetaria Moderna Molti economisti mainstream sembrano pensare che l’idea alla base della Teoria Monetaria Moderna sia nuova e nasca da strane idee economiche. Nuova? Strane idee? Che ne diciamo di leggere uno dei grandi fondatori dell’economia neoclassica – Knut Wicksell. Questo è ciò che Wicksell scrisse nel 1898 sui “sistemi di puro credito” in Interesse Monetario e Prezzi dei Beni (Geldzins und Güterpreise), 1936...

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone. Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone, Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come. Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead Scribbling in the sky the message He is Dead, Put crêpe bows round the white necks of the public doves, Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves. He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest My noon, my midnight, my...

 [embedded content] Eres tú Como el agua de mi fuente Eres tú El fuego de mi hogar (Eres tú) Algo así eres tú (Como el fuego de mi hoguera) Algo así como el fuego de mi hoguera (Eres tú) Algo así eres tú (El trigo de mi pan) Mi vida algo así eres tú

A hundred years ago The treaty includes no provisions for the economic rehabilitation of Europe — nothing to make the defeated Central Empires into good neighbours, nothing to stabilize the new states of Europe … The Council of Four paid no attention to these issues … Reparation was their main excursion into the economic field, and they settled it as a problem of theology, of politics, of electoral chicane, from every point of view except that of the...

Paul Krugman — a methodological critique Alex Rosenberg — chair of the philosophy department at Duke University and renowned economic methodologist — has an interesting article on What’s Wrong with Paul Krugman’s Philosophy of Economics in 3:AM Magazine. Writes Rosenberg: Krugman writes: “So how do you do useful economics? In general, what we really do is combine maximization-and-equilibrium as a first cut with a variety of ad hoc modifications reflecting...

Ist jeder Muslim ein Koran auf zwei Beinen?  [embedded content]

[embedded content] Our youngest daughter was into gymnastics for many years, so I’ve seen how much practice and effort it takes to do things like this. Amazing performance!

On the​ emptiness of Bayesian probabilism A major attraction of the personalistic [Bayesian] view is that it aims to address uncertainty that is not directly based on statistical data, in the narrow sense of that term​. Clearly much uncertainty is of this broader kind. Yet when we come to specific issues I believe that a snag in the theory emerges. To take an example that concerns me at the moment: what is the evidence that the signals from mobile...

Keynes on the limits​ of econometric methods Am I right in thinking that the method of multiple correlation analysis essentially depends on the economist having furnished, not merely a list of the significant causes, which is correct so far as it goes, but a complete list? For example, suppose three factors are taken into account, it is not enough that these should be in fact vera causa; there must be no other significant factor. If there is a further...