papers to read
why we consume alcohol
This is definitely the most brilliant economics paper I’ve read in a while.
First the abstract,
It is argued that drug consumption, most commonly alcohol drinking, can be a technology to give up some control over one’s actions and words. It can be employed by
trustworthy players to reveal their type. Similarly alcohol can function as a “social [...]
everything is a black hole?
I’ve been following Nassim Haramein’s Resonance Project as close a possible once I learned about his work on a unified field theory of physics. Interestingly though, it does not involve strings or anything like that. The model has specific and testable values.
how much does the earth control the stock market?
Global financial stock markets are curious things. So curious in fact, that we need to determine the effect of geomagnetic fields on the indices.
An awesome paper from Anna Krivelyova and Cesare Robotti of the Federal Reserve Board of Atlanta in 2003 proposes a link between geomagnetic fields and stock market performance. The evidence presented is [...]
a serious look at the US $ being replaced as the global reserve currency
An interesting paper from and NBER Conference back in 2005,
Might the dollar eventually follow the precedent of the pound and cede its status as leading international reserve currency? Unlike the last time this question was prominently discussed, ten years ago, there now exists a credible competitor: the euro. This paper econometrically estimates determinants of the [...]
can information tell us what is real?
A new physical principle: Information Causality. In recent years physicists have discovered an entire class of theories that do the same kind of thing. The question is which one do we choose?
A few can be ruled out because they simplify various computational tasks in implausible ways. But the rest have seemed more or less equivalent. [...]
more evidence for the failure of civilization
From the American Association of Physical Anthropologists,
Civilization’s Cost: The Decline and Fall of Human Health
Ann Gibbons
Agriculture and cities made human life better, right? Wrong, say archaeologists who presented stunning new evidence at the American Association of Physical Anthropologists meeting.
