Days with hotter temperatures are becoming more and more common, as temperatures as well as the likelihood for extreme weather increase due to climate change. Hot temperatures affect human health and cognition negatively when the exposure is contemporaneous—students perform worse on tests and elderly die from it. It also turns out that exposure to heat …
Link to Google Doc A concept that has been growing increasingly popular, and which is now becoming a reality, the past years is charter cities. (See for example: Próspera, Orchidéa, and more) Charter cities are semi-autonomous cities, which often are built to attract tech-entrepreneurs and digital nomads. As such, part of the reason for wanting …
Link to Google Doc This is another post with a loose theory, expect some rambling and some speculation. I also advise you to read my previous post first as I reuse some concepts and sources in this post. In my last post, A Framework of Social Status , I laid forth a framework for thinking …
Link to Google Doc Recently, I have been thinking about social status. In this post I want to propose a framework about how to think about status in peer groups and cultures. The epistemic status of the framework is loose, but it is a start. Status is intuitively understood by almost anyone. Most people can …
Link to Google Doc By some help from professor Robert Östling at SSE, I got to know about a policy suggestion closely related to my Policy Dollar suggestion. I am not sure if the idea originated with them, but the most famous proponents for this idea are Eric Posner and Glen Weyl, whom have written …
Link to Google Doc During late spring and the summer some voices has been raising concern that the financial markets are not accurately reflecting the economy. While it has been clear that the global economy has taken a beating by the coronavirus, Swedish GDP plunged by 8.6 percent in Q2, the financial markets has been …
Link to Google Doc In Plato´s The Republic, Plato paints a beautiful picture of a cave as an allegory for knowledge and the effect of education. Imagine a cave in which a number of prisoners are facing the innermost wall without being able to move. Behind them, there is a fire which people and objects …
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Link to Google Doc Now, we are going onto the second part of the mini-series on prediction markets. I am going to explore one of the usages of prediction markets in politics. Much of this is based on Robin Hanson’s thoughts on this topic. The idea is to create a political system that can resolve …
Link to Google Doc This week I finally got a book I have been waiting for, the book Markets without Limits. In it, the authors of the book, Jason Brennan and Peter M. Jaworski, argue for the position that if you can have X for free, then you can also sell and buy X. Meaning …
Link to Google Doc Today I am going to introduce the blog to the concept of prediction markets, and the superior knowledge of markets over expert guesses. This post will be part of a miniseries of posts in which I am going to introduce another way in which one could use policy dollars and prediction …