Great! Are you familiar with the economic simulation work Threadneedle under Jacky Mallett in Iceland?
Danish government makes its new economic model open source
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#62THIS is the way. It is a step forward in transparency (even though 90% of danes probably don't understand a thing of what was published) which is something no one I know is opposed to. Hope this sets a precedent for other countries to follow!
I bet studying this would be a good graduate-level economics course project.
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#64Wow now I’m a fan of Denmark! This is the future of government!
Soon they'll have our entire lives modelled out for us. Know what we'll be useful for, optimise to give us exactly what we need and nothing more. What could possibly go wrong.
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#65I bet there has to be better solutions than github.
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#66Wow now I’m a fan of Denmark! This is the future of government!
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#67Economics is not a science like physics. We can't do controlled experiments, we can't falsify hypothesis. This leads to very muddy waters and what you are left with are two kinds of economists: Those who tell people what they want to hear and those nobody listens to.
Econometrics gives people everything they want to hear, and with a scientific veneer as a bonus. The HN crowd should however appreciate how susceptible this is to the tyranny of metrics. Claude-Frédéric Bastiat warned of this over a century ago with his parable of the broken window: Think not only of what you can see (the glazier who is employed to repair the window), but also of what you cannot see (the alternative purchase of a suit) had the window not been broken.
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#68First issue: "This is too cool to be true! #1"
Nice! Kudos to DREAM!
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#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you mean the Turkiye government? ;) (Reference to the recent news item that Erdogan made a public statement in which he renamed Turkey to Turkiye in English.)
Do countries get to declare how their names are spelled in other languages?
I still refer to “Myanmar” by its true name, Burma!
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#70I wonder if this includes Christiania, the billion Euros of cannabis sold there each year, and the big lift all those drug tourists impart on the local service industry. Beautiful place by the way, would recommend.
Even if we assume that “the billion Euros of cannabis sold there each year” is not a wild overstatement (that’s an unimaginable amount of weed), the Danish GDP is some 300 billion Euros.
As for tourism, it’s just one of a long list of tourist attractions in and around the city.
It would not make a huge difference if Christiania disappeared tomorrow (although Christianshavn would be a much nicer place).