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Fri Mar 21 04:38:14 UTC 2014 <decimation> "My test is that a real economist is an economist who believes that any quantity of money is adequate. A quack economist is an economist who believes that increasing prosperity - or even continuing prosperity - demands a continuously increasing quantity of money."
Thu Mar 20 14:28:57 UTC 2014 <ThickAsThieves> "We, as women, will play a very large part in the development of the Bitcoin economy and many of us will shape the businesses and services in the sector."
Wed Mar 19 20:25:17 UTC 2014 <ninjashogun> But on the other hand, millions of people use Windows for hours every day, and have used it to run most aspects of the economy.
Wed Mar 19 18:55:37 UTC 2014 <dexX7> praeconium: ##econometrics seems to be the most "professional" one re: investments and bitcoin, about bitcoin trading talk there is #bitcoin-pricetalk + #bitcoinmarkets
Wed Mar 19 18:55:30 UTC 2014 <benkay> praeconium: try ##econometrics
Wed Mar 19 03:59:37 UTC 2014 <Shakespeare> both societal and economic
Wed Mar 19 03:51:52 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> which are purely economical.
Wed Mar 19 03:44:15 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> while the economy is in fact wholly controlled by matriarchs, nevertheless they have no legal rights.
Wed Mar 19 03:43:41 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> Shakespeare now, getting back to your original q, economic independence is not problematic, just as long as its not backed by legal independence.
Wed Mar 19 03:39:54 UTC 2014 <Shakespeare> is your text also implying that a society which gives women fair play in the economy, ie females CEOs, equal pay, etc, is doomed the same?
Wed Mar 19 03:37:29 UTC 2014 <Shakespeare> same question for an economy
Wed Mar 19 02:35:24 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> "The Piraeus bond deal underscores both the continued improvement in the perception of Greece?s economy as well as the flood of cash in the financial system that has depressed returns on debt of all stripes."
Tue Mar 18 04:23:18 UTC 2014 <asciilifeform> 'Russia promised to respond ?symmetrically.? In its arsenal is: popping the huge financial bubble and causing a resumption of the financial collapse of 2008 by any number of means, from requiring gold instead of fiat currency as payment for oil and gas, to dumping US dollar reserves (in concert with China), to putting the EU on a fast track to economic collapse by giving the natural gas valve a slight clock
Mon Mar 17 23:43:05 UTC 2014 <ughlol> mircea_popescu: So I would need to create an economic activity that expands the pie
Mon Mar 17 23:42:29 UTC 2014 <ninjashogun> After you do that for 100 years, do you think you produce MORE or LESS net value for the economy than IBM's current value?
Mon Mar 17 23:41:55 UTC 2014 <ninjashogun> benkay- here's a way to think about the 'lottery argument'. Do you think it would be a net gain or a net loss for the economy if we took IBM's market cap -- $192.19B -- converted it to cash, and then funded about $200k into a graduate student's new "company" (about the money Google was funded with).
Mon Mar 17 23:41:49 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> yes, well, basically economic activity can be divided in entrepreneurial (which expands the pie) and rent seeking (which redistributes the pie)
Sat Mar 15 09:46:28 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> If, however, costs and prices are determined by full-bore competition, there is more than ample capacity, and the buyer cares little about whose product or distribution services he uses, industry economics are almost certain to be unexciting. They may well be disastrous."
Sat Mar 15 05:58:27 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> which is strctly command economy under another name
Sat Mar 15 05:58:10 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> it's by now a mistake to see anything in the us command economy as meaningfully separate from anything else.