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For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.
Psalm 36:9
The universe is pushing us forward. It does this because it must. There is no retrogression in God. Mind is forever evolving new ideas and these ideas are forever urging us on to greater good. Only those who look backward grow feeble. Their disintegration touches our sympathy, but wisdom tells us to release them to their own stagnation, and catch up with those in the vanguard of advancing souls, who let God work through them. To the alert, God speaks. Mind reveals Its ideas and good appears everywhere. The Law of Life is the Law of growth, expansion and increase. We must accept this, for It has been given unto us freely, and all that It asks is that we follow Its instructions. As we look ahead and behold the ideas of God unfolding within us and projecting themselves into form through us, we see our increased good.
I move forward in the divine design of my life, and find the future pregnant with good. The Christ Mind is within me, and I follow Its urges toward a richer and fuller life. There is no bondage to the past, for today I am free in God to express all His ideas fully. I see ahead on my pathway with faith, vision and love. I accept the great and true experience which my God has prepared for me because I love Him, His Mind and His Truth. The Life of the Spirit within me compels me to move on from the past, do my best in the present, and envision good in the future. No evil can stop me; no wrong thinking can hold me back, for I know that His plan for me is undefeatable. I give thanks that Life moves me forward into greater good today.
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Eclipse DemoCamps November 2012/Boston
Black Duck Software Headquarters 8 New England Executive Park Burlington, MA Second Floor
Date and Time
29th of November 2012, starting at 6pm
EXCITING NEWS: Mike Milinkovich, Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation will be joining us and opening our event!
To give everybody a chance to present their projects, we are limiting the presentations to 15 minutes. The timetable will be available later.
As compensation for the short timespan, we are offering space for all participants to set up a laptop and to answer any further questions after the main presentation. This way, all visitors can talk in-depth about the themes that particularly interest them.
This is a casual event and while we plan to have plenty of time for socializing and networking, depending on the number of speaker/demo submissions, we may extend the evening a bit to fit in as many people as possible.
Food and beverages will be provided. In order to have enough food and drink for everyone, it is important that we know how many people want to come. Therefore, if you haven't registered, or if you are bringing extra people, please let us know.
We're looking forward to a fun evening with you!
- Nov.20.2012: Submission of suggestions for presentations (i.e. make entry in this wiki, preferably together with a 3-4 sentence abstract.)
- Nov.22.2012: Selection of submissions
- Black Duck Software, Black Duck
- Cloud Bees, CloudBees
- Dave Gruber, Black Duck
- Alyssa Tong, CloudBees
If you would like to present at the DemoCamp, please feel free to add your name and topic to the list. Depending on the number of people interested we may have to limit the number of presenters and time of each demo.
Have you created an nice application with eclipse software and want to show it to others? Just bring your own device and present it at the Demo Camp. Please let us know here what you would like to show.
- Demo: Open Source Code Search plug-in Presenter: Scott McLeod
- Demo: Turbo-charge App Development & Deployment in the Cloud with Eclipse Presenter: Jesse Glick
- Demo: Orion: Development for the web, in the web Presenter: Mike Milinkovich, Eclipse Foundation
- Demo: Peer Code Review Made Easy with Eclipse Presenter: Justin Collier
- Demo: Openshift integration with Eclipse Presenter: Mike Khusid
- Demo: Using Software Collections with Eclipse Presenter: Langdon White
Who's Attending
Please add yourself to this list if you are going to attend this DemoCamp.
- Dave Gruber, Black Duck
- Alyssa Tong, CloudBees
- Jesse Glick, CloudBees
- Mike Milinkovich, Eclipse Foundation
- Richard Langlois, Nokia
- Justin Collier, SmartBear
- Langdon White, Red Hat
- Ron Ten-Hove, Oracle
- Sarah Gerrol, Black Duck
- Joe Gamache, Black Duck
- Kevin Kelley, Black Duck
- Jeremy Gustie Black Duck
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How Space Weather Can Damage Transformers
The transformer is not a power source. It functions like a lever to convert a small voltage pushing a large electric current into a large voltage pushing a small electric current or vice versa. The power in an electric circuit is equal to the voltage multiplied by the current. For a perfect transformer, all the power that enters comes back out. If the transformer is not perfect, a portion of the power that enters is converted to heat.
The transformer is intended for use only with an alternating current while the current induced in the power lines as a result of space weather disturbances is a direct current. The transformer, which usually operates with 99% efficiency, begins to malfunction. Magnetic flux ceases to be concentrated inside the iron core of the transformer and impinges on regions that were not designed to withstand this. Power begins to be converted into heat. The transformer moans and creaks loudly and overheats. Oil fires and melt-down of transformer components can occur. This happens not just to one transformer but at the same time to all affected transformers on the grid. Some transformers may burn up. Others experience significantly shortened lifetimes following damage during magnetic storm events but don't fail outright.


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Wachsman Receives Outstanding Achievement Award
University of Maryland Energy Research Center (UMERC) director Eric Wachsman (joint, Departments of Materials Science & Engineering and Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering) has received the Electrochemical Society High Temperature Division's 2012 Outstanding Achievement Award.
Wachsman will accept the award at a ceremony at the society's 2012 Pacific Rim Meeting on Electrochemical and Solid-State Science (PRIME) in Honolulu, Hawaii, in October, where he is also scheduled to deliver a talk.
Wachsman's research interests include the development of solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs), gas separation membranes, solid-state gas sensors, electrocatalytic conversion of CH4, and the post-combustion reduction of NOx using advanced ion conducting materials.
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OPM Buyouts Could Threaten Progress on Retirement Claims Backlog
Nearly 300 employees, including some retirement claims workers, could voluntarily leave agency.
This story has been updated.
The Office of Personnel Management is offering buyouts and early retirement packages to hundreds of employees across the agency, according to a memorandum from Acting Director Elaine Kaplan.
OPM received approval to offer 299 buyouts and early outs to employees and will send individual emails to eligible workers on June 17, said Kaplan in the May 31 memo, obtained by Government Executive. OPM is using its flexibility to address a tight budget, Kaplan said, but the voluntary employee departures could have other consequences. The agency is offering 17 buyouts to employees in its retirement services division, the office responsible for processing retirement applications and clearing up the current backlog. The 17 buyouts are "limited to non-supervisory employees who are eligible for optional/regular retirement," according to agency documents.
There are 955 employees in OPM's retirement services division.
The claims backlog, which was around 30,000 at the end of April, has long been a thorn in OPM's side. The agency has made sustained progress during the past year to reduce the backlog, despite a record number of new applications since January. But the possibility of buyouts in the retirement services division, and the reality of sequestration -- which forced the agency to ban overtime for retirement services employees and the office to reduce its call center hours -- means that momentum could slow through the summer and fall.
"The possibility of losing 17 people in the division that has already abolished overtime and cut back on call center hours will undoubtedly have a negative impact on the timely processing of retirement claims," said Jessica Klement, legislative director at the National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association. "Already hindered by sequestration cuts, these buyouts will certainly reverse the progress OPM has made in reducing the backlog."
Many federal retirees still wait several months, and sometimes years, for their applications to be fully and correctly processed. OPM administers benefits for 2.5 million federal retirees and processes about 100,000 new claims annually. "The VERA/VSIP offering is based on a comprehensive strategic workforce planning review," said an OPM spokeswoman, in response to a question on the impact of buyouts on the retirement backlog. "This review enabled us to identify areas where we can create efficiencies and better align our talent toward delivering our mission. We have also identified caps/limits to the number of VSIPs that will be accepted from any particular occupation/work unit, so as to avoid an unmanageable number of departures."
OPM's human resource solutions organization is offering 129 buyouts and early outs to eligible employees, the most of any individual division within the agency. Other divisions offering the voluntary packages include:
- Office of the Chief Financial Officer
- Office of the Chief Information Officer
- Congressional, Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs
- Communications and Public Liaison
- Employee Services
- Executive Secretariat and Ombudsman
- EEO/Diversity and Inclusion
- Facilities, Security and Contracting
- Healthcare and Insurance
- Merit System Accountability and Compliance
- Office of the General Counsel
- Planning and Policy Analysis
To be eligible for a Voluntary Early Retirement Authorization (early out), employees must have 20 years of service and be at least 50 years old, or have at least 25 years of service -- this applies to those covered under the Civil Service Retirement System or the Federal Employees Retirement System. Buyouts, or Voluntary Separation Incentive Payments, are cash incentives of up to $25,000 for employees and can be offered along with an early out.
NEXT STORY: OPM Issues Guidance on How to Partially Retire


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There will be a new home for several NBA Blue Devils this coming season including one of the all time Duke favorites JJ Redick. In case you missed it, Redick was part of a three team trade and deal which landed him with the Los Angeles Clippers. Redick joins the "hot." team in L.A. in the Clippers who look to be one of the better teams in the west this season. The Lakers which recently lost Dwight Howard to free agency will take a step back and the window is open for success for the Clippers who now have Glenn "Doc," RIvers running the team. As for Rivers, he actually mentioned Redick as a shooter in a conversation I had with him when Duke was recruiting his son Austin. In short, Redick has a good new home and with an aging Chancey Billups at the SG spot, he has a chance to start or play a major role this coming season.
Also on the move is former Duke standout and national champion Mike Dunleavy who will now suit up for Chicago Bulls. Dunleavy joins two other former Blue Devils in Luol Deng and Carlos boozer provide there are no further moves in Chi-town.
Another Blue Devil who will have a new home is Nolan Smith who was to play with the Boston Celtics in the NBA Summer league but he just suffered a lower leg injury and is now in a boot.
Mason Plumlee dropped a dunk during day one of the NBA Summer League that is drawing raves and supposedly yelled "Get some," as he ran back down court. Mason has a bit of a chip on his shoulder for those who thinks he is an older rookie with less upside. I think folks will change their tune over time about kids remaining until their senior year hurting their chances.
Meanwhile, the Blue Devil who never was, Shaun Livingston will be a teammate of Plumlee in Jersey where the Nets have signed the former high school standout. For those who have not followed Duke recruiting over the years, Livingston was a high school prodigy who gave Duke a verbal only to bolt for the NBA late the game before he ever played a game at Duke. His departure coincided with Luol Deng leaving after his freshman season after he had told the Devils he would return leaving Coach K's Dukies in a bit of a lurch. Sadly, Livingston suffered a major injury which has effected his career and many felt he needed a year in college for his body to catch up. Anyhow, Livingston was the original point of frustration for Duke fans in that they never got to see the top rated PG in the class and until that guy named Kyrie Irving came along. Irving, of course, got injured where he played in just over ten games for Duke leaving fans and the staff to wonder what it would be like had he had a full year in Durham. Those who remember Livingston realize he could have been one of the greats and it took a player of Irvings' stature to wrestle away the top "what if," spot in the K era.
Another player who will join Redick in Los Angeles will be incoming rookie Ryan Kelly. The two will be rivals though, in that Kelly will be a Laker. That means when Kelly gets burn he'll be closer to the Hollywood stars than he probably ever dreamed with the A-list straddling courtside seats. Kelly and his soon to be wife, Lindsey Cowher, daughter of former Steelers coach Bill Cowher will now have state of the art theaters at their disposal. The two are notorious movie goers where Kelly came clean that his favorites were romantic comedies. Anyhow, Hollywood is getting two character young men in the aforementioned Redick and Kelly who both make faith in Christ a big part of their lives.
Lastly, it was good to see Kyrie Irving get some help in Cleveland during the most recent NBA Draft and yes, Duke fans are still wondering aloud what a full season of Kyrie would have been like in Durham. I followed Irving closely on the recruiting trail when the Blue Devils were chasing him and to this day, no player was more exciting to the senses in that he simply did things on the court I have never seen since. Irving was special. He was worth the price of admission on the AAU trail, much less the league and he will now be able to play for Coach Mike Krzyzewski again for Team USA. I, for one, am excited to see that.


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Lots of people ask me about how I work with color in the garden. How I decide on a color scheme for a container. I have tried to write about my process, but I always have the nagging feeling that the discussion falls short. Frustrating, this. Though I know that any creative process cannot be quantified, or reduced to a step by step, I would teach, if I could. I had occasion recently to view a video of a TED talk, thanks to Buck. TED, if you are familiar, is a forum for presenting speakers who have something to say about ideas worth spreading. Interested? www.ted.com. He keeps up better than I do-about what there is out there to learn. Her had me listen to a talk given by Joi Ito.
In March of 2011 he was interviewing for the directorship of the MIT media lab. Late that night, a magnitude 9 earthquake struck off the coast of Japan, just several hundred kilometers from his wife, children and family. In the terrifying hours that ensued, he discovered that he could not reach his family. Nor was any government or news agency broadcasting any information about the damage to nuclear reactions by the earthquake. Frantic for information about his family, and for all the other families besieged by a disaster of this scale, he went to what he knew. The internet.
In the following hours and days he contacted friends, hackers, scientists and families and put together a citizen science group he called Safecast. Over the next few months this group of amateurs with no scientific or governmental standing managed to invent a process by which to measure the radiation levels. They put geiger counters on the ground; they measured the radiation. They made available at no charge information that people could use. Information for anyone for whom this earthquake had devastatingly personal consequences.
In his talk, he speaks eloquently of how his drive to get the information he wanted and needed was enabled by the internet. The volume of information out there that can be accessed is limitless. The internet allows people who have similar interests to meet digitally. His discussion of how the internet makes it possible for citizens of certain groups to meet and solve problems which transcend any map or country interested me. Most certainly passionate gardeners are citizens of a country all their own.
Joi Ito went on to discuss in simple terms the process of learning. What stood out to me the most? "Education is something that someone else does to you. Learning is something one does to/for oneself." I like this idea. In fact, I like it a lot. If anyone would ask me what was most valuable part of my college education, I would have to say that I learned how to learn about what interested me. Of course the world has changed immeasurably since 1970.
One can access an seemingly limitless amount of information with a computer or a smart phone. Anyone can learn whatever it is that they truly want to learn. As far as developing a personal sense of how to user color in containers-I did not study this in school. I was interested enough to learn. That learning process, which is still ongoing, and still of great interest to me, was all about the doing. Plenty of color combinations did not work out so well. But their is as much to learn from those combinations that do not work out, as there is from those that do.
How people perceive color is very personal. What appeals to my eye may not appeal to yours. But that is not the point. Anything you see that interests or intrigues you may encourage you enough to learn what you need to know to express your own ideas. To understand what color relationships appeal to you as a gardener is all the fun of it.
Mr. Ito's talk was very interesting. Want to watch it for yourself? http://www.wimp.com/wantinnovate/


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A word to the wise: Just when you thought "silly season" ended with the election, it did not.
Last week, California's political watchdog agency imposed two fines on treasurers of political committees for misuse of funds. In the first case the Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC) fined a treasurer of a committee formed to support the decriminalization of prostitution for loaning dancer at a strip club money. Strangely enough (insert sarcasm here), a treasurer of a political committee cannot use committee's funds to make loans to love interests.
The loan was apparently to pay expenses related to a family law case and plastic surgery. Again, oddly enough, those expenses do not count as proper expenses for the political committee formed to decriminalize prostitution.
The FPPC acted quickly and fined Luke Briet almost $10,000. The apparent loan of $3,000 has not been repaid.
But the fun doesn't stop there. The FPPC also fined another treasurer, Michael Gunter, of a different political committee. Gunter's violation was based on using $10,000 of the committee's funds to start his own business. He was the treasurer for the Californians for Privacy Committee -- I'm guessing he would have preferred to keep many of his activities private (ba-dum ching!).
None of these violations rise to the level of now-infamous campaign treasurer Kinde Durkee. She, thanks in large part to the investigation and subsequent actions by the FPPC, was recently sentenced to eight years in prison and ordered to pay $10.5 million in restitution to her victims.


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This directory contains software, mostly contributed by PhysioNet users, for use with Matlab and Octave. Matlab is a popular commercial program that provides an interactive environment for numeric computation and graphics using an interpreted programming language that optionally can be compiled. Octave is a freely available open-source program that is compatible with Matlab. Both Octave and Matlab can run under most popular operating systems, including GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, MS-Windows, and many versions of Unix. Sources for Octave are available here and from the official Octave web site.
Reading and writing PhysioBank and compatible data
PhysioBank data are stored in a variety of formats ("WFDB-compatible formats") that can be read and written using the WFDB library, which is written in C and can be called directly from user-written applications written in C, C++, or Fortran. Digitized signals (waveforms) are most often stored in "format 212", in which pairs of 12-bit samples are bit-packed into three 8-bit bytes. The library can read and write signal files in many other WFDB-compatible formats, and a few of these formats are used for PhysioBank data that cannot be stored in format 212. Although the WFDB library also supports multiple annotation formats, only one of these is used for PhysioBank annotation files, which are binary files containing variable-length annotations averaging slightly over 2 bytes each.
Software available here offers several ways of reading and writing WFDB-compatible files from Matlab, with varying levels of effort required:
The WFDB Toolbox for Matlab: This toolbox is a collection of MATLAB functions for reading, writing, and manipulating (processing) PhysioBank data. The functions are implemented as system calls through MATLAB and Java wrappers to native binary executables based on the WFDB Software Package, so they support reading data directly from the PhysioNet web site (using HTTP) as well as from local disk files. The toolbox can be installed from within MATLAB. It runs on 64-bit GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, or MS-Windows, and it requires Matlab 7.11 (R2010b) or later, with a working Java Virtual Machine (JVM) that supports Java 1.6 or later. It is not currently usable on any 32-bit platform, on Solaris, with Octave, or with earlier versions of Matlab or Java.
The PhysioBank ATM: Use the ATM in your web browser to locate and visualize PhysioBank data of interest, then use its Export signals as .mat tool to create .mat files that you can download and read directly in any version of Matlab or Octave. If you also save the short .info file generated by the tool, the function plotATM (in either Matlab or Octave) can read the .mat file, baseline-correct and scale the signals in it, and plot them. The segments that can be obtained from the ATM are limited to 1 million samples per signal in length.
wfdb2mat: This application, which is part of the WFDB Software Package, is used by the ATM's Export signals as .mat tool, but you can also run it on your own computer, with no restriction on segment length. If the original signal files have not been downloaded from PhysioNet, wfdb2mat can read them directly from the PhysioNet server. (The .mat files generated by wfdb2mat, when accompanied by the .hea files generated at the same time, are also directly readable by dozens of other applications in the WFDB Software Package, including WAVE.)
Converting annotations to text: You can do this using the Show annotations as text tool in the PhysioBank ATM, or you can use rdann to do this on your own computer once you have installed the WFDB Software Package. The text contains one annotation per line, and can be easily parsed in any version of Matlab or Octave.
The older methods listed below also remain available:
Converting signals to text: You can do this using the Show signals as text tool in the PhysioBank ATM, or you can use rdsamp to do this on your own computer once you have installed the WFDB Software Package. The text contains one sample of each signal per line, and can be easily parsed in any version of Matlab or Octave.
WFDB library wrappers for Matlab R13 (6.5, 2003) only: Use the standard WFDB library via a set of wrappers, usable with Matlab R13 under GNU/Linux and Mac OS X. Jonas Carlson has contributed a nearly complete set of such wrappers (missing only the calibration-related functions and a few other rarely-used functions in the WFDB library). See WFDB_tools.
All of the methods above use the WFDB library to read or write PhysioBank and compatible records. The advantages of doing so are that they can be updated to handle new file formats simply by updating the WFDB library, they are highly efficient, and they can read data directly from PhysioNet as well as from local files. Several users contributed software that does not use the WFDB library, but can read local disk copies of signal files in format 212 or in PhysioBank annotation file format:
WFDB library subset for Matlab: a useful selection of WFDB library functions, reimplemented in a mixture of m-code and C compiled with Matlab's built-in C compiler, by Jose Garcia Moros and Salvador Olmos. This can be used to read and write WFDB-compatible annotation files and format 212 signal files using Matlab. The authors have also provided compiled versions of these files for use with Matlab under GNU/Linux, Solaris, and MS-Windows.
A Matlab viewer that displays signals and annotations: Robert Tratnig and Klaus Rheinberger have contributed rddata.m, a Matlab program that reads 1- or 2-channel PhysioBank records stored in format 212 (see signal(5) for a description of this format) and displays them together with annotations in a Matlab figure. Lines 26-29 of this program can be edited to specify the input files. (Note that most PhysioBank records are stored in format 212. The program will warn you if the record you choose is not in this format, or if it contains more than 2 signals. In such cases, you can use xform(1) from the WFDB Software Package to reformat records in other formats and to select 1 or 2 signals from a larger set if necessary.)
A signal file exporter: Use the code available in ECG_Exporter to create .mat files containing digitized signals from PhysioBank and compatible records. This package, contributed by James Lamberg of the University of Minnesota, converts two-signal format 212 records using code from Robert Tratnig's rddata.m, as well as text files created using rdsamp or the PhysioBank ATM. The package also includes a viewer.
Other PhysioToolkit software for Matlab and Octave
The directory ECGwaveGen contains software contributed by Floyd Harriott for generating a synthesized ECG-like test signal.
A Matlab/Octave implementation of ECGSYN, which generates realistic ECGs, has been contributed by Patrick McSharry and Gari Clifford.
A Matlab/Octave implementation of ecgpuwave, which locates P, QRS, and T wave onsets, peaks, and ends in ECG signals, has been contributed by the authors of the original Fortran 77 implementation.
For an example of a large Matlab application that works together with C-language software from the WFDB Software Package, see RCVSIM, contributed by Ramakrishna Mukkamala.
Matlab code for calculating sample entropy (SampEn) has been contributed by Doug Lake, Randall Moorman, and Cao Hanqing, and is available here.
We thank the authors for these generous contributions to PhysioToolkit. If you find these programs useful, please send us a note (or write to the contributors directly).
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Parent Directory - ECG_Exporter/ 17-May-2005 21:34 - ECGwaveGen/ 06-Jan-2012 02:46 - WFDB_tools.tar.gz 30-Apr-2006 04:35 393K gzip-compressed tar archive local.css 02-Oct-2015 23:29 3.1K C# source file plotATM-1.0.m 11-Dec-2009 17:39 1.8K Matlab/Octave source plotATM.m 31-Jan-2014 16:53 1.9K Matlab/Octave source rddata.m 28-Feb-2003 15:10 5.3K Matlab/Octave source wfdb-app-matlab/ 31-Oct-2018 21:11 - wfdb-subset/ 06-Jan-2012 02:46 - wfdb-swig-matlab/ 19-Oct-2016 23:11 - wfdb_tools/ 06-Jan-2012 02:46 -
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The following is an excerpt from James McDonald's "Found a Faithful Steward" blog from June 23, 2014. It hit home with me because it started at basics and progressed beyond to some things we don't often consider in how we think about and use our money.
Jesus said,
"For where your treasure is,
there your heart will be also"
Matthew 6:21
Money is a test of your:
Work ethic: While not universal, generally speaking, if your wallet is empty, you ought to look closely at your work ethic. How hard do you work? How diligently did you work, save, and invest in your twenties and thirties? The test of money hints at the longitudinal arc of your work ethic.
Self-control: You'll never experience financial victory until you spend less than you make. Some people spend more than they make for years or decades. They're failing the test, which often leads to financial bondage, tension, and misery in their homes.
Integrity: How did you get what you have? Did you cut corners or twist the truth to win a deal? Withhold taxes? Neglect tithing? Jesus taught, "Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's" (Mark 12:17). The money test demonstrates your integrity—or lack therof.
Love for people: When you're able to meet someone else's financial need, do you? Can you recall people you've helped? Perhaps no one knows. Perhaps you didn't get a tax deduction. You simply helped and loved others. If so, you're passing the test.
Love for God: Jesus said more about money than He said about heaven and hell combined. Not because it's the most important subject, but because until God gets hold of people's finances, He doesn't truly have their hearts.
Whatever you have, God has given it to test your loyalty, allegiance, and heart. Judas' soul was cramped and traitorous; money revealed that. Joseph's soul was generous and loyal; money revealed that too. And "where your treasure is, there your heart will be also."
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I just found out that Ray Kurzweil, the futurist, and I have a common interest – microorganisms. I wrote about a couple of weeks ago when writing about the human ecosystem.
I woke up to a piece on the Kurzweil blog called Stalking the wild microbiome. The piece and the accompanying video are about an investment opportunity, but the information is so compelling that I have embedded the video for you to watch. (more…)


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The sight of 1,000 new federales on the streets of Acapulco
may or may not make tourists and residents feel any safer, but that's what they're
going to get.
As part of the "Secure Guerrero" (Guerrero Seguro) initiative,
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reports of tourists being shaken down by police, as well as a confrontation
between police and student demonstrators on the Acapulco to Mexico City highway
(Autopista del Sol), near Chilpancingo, in which two
students were shot dead.
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focus would be on tourist areas and "hot spots" where crime has occurred in the
past, with increased patrols in areas where there is a high concentration of
people, including the coastal areas and the "Zona Diamante" (Diamond Zone).
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The intention is to provide fixed support for tourists and
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text: August 10, 2003Courts Weighing Rights of States to Curb Aid for Religion MajorsRAVERSE CITY, Mich., Aug. 5 — Teresa Becker made a costly decision when she chose after her sophomore year to major in theology. She had received $1,200 in state scholarship money for her freshman year at Ave Maria College in Ypsilanti, Mich., in 2000. The next year she received $2,750 in state aid. Last June, she was promised that amount for her junior year, too. A month later, when word of her choice of a major reached state officials, they wrote her a new letter. "Students enrolled in a course of study leading to a degree in theology, divinity or religious education are not eligible to receive an award," it said, paraphrasing a state law. "Your award has changed from $2,750.00 to $0.00." Ms. Becker sued. On July 21, Judge George Caram Steeh of Federal District Court in Detroit issued a preliminary ruling in her favor, saying the state had probably engaged in religious discrimination. Judge Steeh ordered the state to put her scholarship money in escrow until there is a final court ruling. A case much like Ms. Becker's from Washington State will be decided by the United States Supreme Court in its next term. A trial in Ms. Becker's case has not been scheduled and may never be needed; the Supreme Court case will probably effectively decide hers as well. Eleven states prohibit aid for the study of theology. In addition to Michigan and Washington, they are New York, New Jersey, Alabama, Louisiana, Missouri, Oregon, South Carolina, South Dakota and Wisconsin, according to a supporting brief filed in the Supreme Court by five state attorneys general. The Washington case is in some ways the narrower one. The State Supreme Court interpreted theology to mean "instruction that resembles worship and manifests a devotion to religion and religious principles in thought, feeling, belief and conduct." In Washington, then, teaching about religion as an academic subject, as opposed to religious teaching meant to inspire devotion, is fine. The Michigan law is seemingly broader, and its original purpose is not well understood. In an e-mail message to an Ave Maria College official in January, the director of the state's scholarship office, Diana Todd Sprague, wrote: "I am not clear on why this was part of the statute since it was established in the 60's. It has been described to me as having to do with the separation of church and state, but I am not certain." Jason Allen, a Republican state senator from here, called the history of the law murky. Senator Allen has introduced legislation to allow state aid for students studying theology. Ronald Muller, the president of Ave Maria College, a Roman Catholic college, said its theology major is part of its liberal arts curriculum. Theology "is an academic discipline like philosophy, English literature or the classics," he said. Barry Lynn, the executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, which opposes state financing for most religious education, said the Michigan statute might be too sweeping. "The statute should probably read that persons preparing for the ministry or religious education are excluded," Mr. Lynn said. The plaintiff in the Washington case, Joshua Davey, acknowledged that he is preparing for a career as a Christian minister. Ms. Becker, on the other hand, says she does not know what career she will choose. "I am not seriously considering any sort of religious life," she said in an interview at her parents' home here. But she said that her interest in theology is not only academic. "I selected theology as my undergraduate major," she wrote in court papers, "based on my sincere religious conviction that this course of study will help me pursue my vocation in life, to know, love and serve God and my fellow men." Ms. Becker, 21, is spending the summer in this resort town where she grew up, on the shore of Lake Michigan. She is direct and serious, and she talked about the central role her Catholic faith plays in her life. "I was raised in it," she said. "I love it. It influences how I act around others, how I treat others. It's my salvation. In a sense, it's everything." She is working at a doctor's office to make up for the loss of state aid, and she volunteers with the local anti-abortion advocacy group. In the fall, she will start her senior year. She said she has heard nothing from the state about a fourth year of aid. Ms. Becker said the scholarship law might have discouraged some of her fellow students at Ave Maria from choosing theology as their majors. That did not stop them, she said, from taking theology classes. In a brief to the Supreme Court, Mr. Davey's lawyers said that having scholarship decisions turn on what major a student declares is a little odd. A student "could take numerous theology courses, paid for by state grants, so long as his major was something else (like psychology or math)," the lawyers wrote. But a student who declares a theology major would get no state money for an entire year "even if the student takes nothing but language, literature, philosophy and science," they said. Ms. Becker's lawyers at the Thomas More Law Center, a conservative public interest law firm in Ann Arbor, Mich., emphasized what they called the unfairness of the distinction the Michigan law draws. "An atheist committed to scientific materialism may study the Big Bang, the laws governing the subsequent organization of matter and, ultimately, the amphibian from which man is said to have evolved — all without forfeiting his scholarship," they wrote in court papers. "But Teresa must forfeit her scholarship if she wishes to discuss the Uncaused Cause that created the stuff of the Big Bang, and the notion that the laws that govern creation are not merely statistically improbable but so irreducibly complex that the heavens proclaim the glory of the Lord." Aaron Caplan, a staff lawyer at the American Civil Liberties Union in Washington State, said that states should be free to decide what kinds of study to support. They can, for instance, offer scholarships for medical school but not law school. And while court decisions hold that states are free to offer scholarships for religious study, Mr. Caplan said, it does not follow that states should be required to do so. The Washington case and Ms. Becker's boil down to one proposition, he said: "A state may legally choose not to fund people's religious education." Ms. Becker saw it differently. "The state is violating people's rights to religious freedom," she said. 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A charter boat whose radio was not tuned to the proper channel missed a severe storm warning. By the time the captain learned of the storm, it was too late to return to shore. The ship sank and a couple of persons died. A yacht in trouble off the west coast of Mexico and far from help saw a passenger ship. What should have been a quick rescue could have turned to disaster when the passenger ship (improperly) had its radio off. The yacht was able to attract the ship's attention, however, and was rescued. Misunderstanding of passing intentions by approaching vessels and near collisions have repeatedly been averted by working radios tuned to the proper channel.
Who regulates whom?
Three U.S. government agencies, the Federal Communications Commission, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, and the U.S. Coast Guard; and two international organizations, the International Telecommunications Union and the International Maritime Organization; have each established marine radio watch keeping regulations. Regulations on radio watch keeping exist for all boats and ships --commercial, recreational, government and military, domestic and foreign-- carrying marine radios.
International Telecommunications Union (ITU). ITU regulates all use of radio spectrum by any person or vessel outside U.S. waters. ITU rules affecting radio, which have treaty status in the U.S. and most other nations, are published in the ITU Radio Regulations. The ITU has established three VHF marine radio channels recognized worldwide for safety purposes:
- Channel 16 (156.800 MHz) - Distress, safety and calling
- Channel 13 (156.650 MHz) - Intership navigation (bridge-to-bridge)
- Channel 70 (156.525 MHz) - Digital Selective Calling
International Maritime Organization (IMO). IMO regulates the outfitting and operation of most vessels engaged on international voyages, except warships. Most IMO radio regulations affect all passenger ships and other ships of 300 gross tonnage and upward. IMO rules affecting radio are promulgated in the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) Convention which has been ratified in the U.S.
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) - the FCC regulates all sales, marketing, and, use of radios in the U.S., including those onboard any recreational, commercial, state and local government, and foreign vessel in U.S. territorial waters. These regulations are contained in Title 47, Code of Federal Regulations.
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U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) - The USCG regulates carriage of radio on most commercial vessels, foreign vessels in U.S. waters, survival craft, and vessels subject to the Bridge-to-Bridge Act (generally all vessels over 20m length) and operating in a Vessel Traffic Service (VTS) area.
Radio Watchkeeping Regulations
In general, any vessel equipped with a VHF marine radiotelephone (whether voluntarily or required to) must maintain a watch on channel 16 (156.800 MHz) whenever the radiotelephone is not being used to communicate.
Source: FCC 47 CFR §§ 80.148, 80.310, NTIA Manual 22.214.171.124.c(2)(e), ITU RR 31.18, 52.244
In addition, every power-driven vessel of 20 meters or over in length or of 100 tons and upwards carrying one or more passengers for hire, or a towing vessel of 26 feet or over in length, as well, as every dredge and floating plant operating near a channel or fairway, must also maintain a watch on channel 13 (156.650 MHz) --channel 67 (156.375 MHz) if operating on the lower Mississippi River-- ; while navigating on U.S. waters (which include the territorial sea, internal waters that are subject to tidal influence, and, those not subject to tidal influence but that are used or are determined to be capable of being used for substantial interstate or foreign commerce). Sequential monitoring techniques (scanners) alone cannot be used to meet this requirement; two radios (including portable radios, i.e. handhelds) or one radio with two receivers, are required. These vessels must also maintain a watch on the designated Vessel Traffic Service (VTS) frequency, in lieu of maintaining watch on channel 16, while transiting within a VTS area. See 33 CFR §§ 2.36, 26, and 161; 47 CFR §§ 80.148, 80.308-309; NTIA: NTIA Manual Chapter 22.214.171.124.
Digital Selective Calling
Ships, where so equipped, shall, while at sea, maintain an automatic digital selective calling watch on the appropriate distress & safety calling frequencies [e.g. channel 70] in the frequency bands in which they are operating. If operating in a GMDSS Sea Area A1 may discontinue their watch on channel 16. However, ships, where so equipped, shall also maintain watch on the appropriate frequencies for the automatic reception of transmissions of meteorological and navigational warnings and other urgent information for ships.
Ship stations complying with these provisions should, where practicable, maintain a watch on the frequency 156.650 MHz for communications related to the safety of navigation.


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Sometime last year I scanned through one of the last issues that I got the Kraft magazine. I remembered seeing a recipe that used layers of ravioli in some sort of casserole type thing. I thought "Hmmmm interesting". Now stick with me on this. I know it seems a little Semi-Ho-ish*, I do know this. Translation: Semi-Ho: Anything that Sandra Lee would make, match her drapery and tablecloth to and accompany a big ole pitcher of booze to go along with. If you've ever watched Sandra you know what I'm talking about. Nuff said.
I forgot about that recipe until I was roaming the aisles at my local Sam's Club looking for some dinner inspiration. Lemme tell ya, Sam's is usually not the place that inspires me.
We've been eating a lot less meat lately since we decided to buy only organic or locally raised meat and poultry, so new meatless dishes are always welcome.
I passed by the frozen food section, and while I was repeatably telling Evan "no were not buying those frozen taquitos" I spotted some jumbo cheese ravioli. "I can work with those" I thought.
So I boiled the ravioli just until they floated, then I strained them and ran cold water over them to stop the cooking process. They were very, very al dente.
I put a little sauce in the bottom of the pan, added in a layer of ravioli, a little mozzarella cheese, a little sauce and a sprinkling of Parmesan. Repeated the layers, ending up with sauce on the the top. Popped it into a 350 oven and BINGO! A quick and easy dish that really did taste like lasagna.
This is how one of the layers looked in the baking dish.
I served it with a nice big salad and some fresh Italian bread. The kids and the adults loved it! This huge dish (I used all 4 pounds of the ravioli in my package) served 4 adults and 3 hungry teenagers with just a tiny bit left over. It was a huge hit.
I would recommend using the jumbo ravioli and not the regular squares ones. I think the smaller ones have a tendency break more easily and leak all the cheesy goodness.
Even though it's pretty simple, here's the recipe.
Ravioli Bake
1 package cheese ravioli (I used a 4 pound pkg of jumbo's from Sam's, if you're cooking for a smaller crowd, adjust accordingly)
Spaghetti sauce
Mozzarella cheese
Grated Parmesan cheese
Boil the ravioli just until they begin to float to the top of the water. As soon as you see them float, get them out of the water, into a strainer and run some cold water over them to stop the cooking process.
Place some sauce in the bottom of a casserole dish and start layering. Ravioli, then some mozzarella, a little more sauce and a sprinkle of Parmesan. Like I said, I made a huge dish, I was cooking for a crowd so I was up to four layers at the end.
End with a top layer of sauce. Sprinkle a little more mozzarella and Parmesan on top, cover with foil, and bake approximately 30 minutes in a 350 oven, or until hot and bubbly. I take the foil off the last 10 minutes or so. Let it sit 10 minutes then dig in.


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Sunday, July 13, 2014
Summer Institute
There were two papers on macro theory. Fist, the conference started with Gauti Eggertsson and Neil Mehrotra's "A Model of Secular Stagnation," which I discussed, slides here.
I think it's an important paper. The standard simple New-Keynesian model has a lot of trouble to produce a steady slump with positive inflation. So if you want "secular stagnation," you need a new model. I also have a lot of trouble with the "negative natural rate." It tends to be a deus-ex-machina, output is lower than I'd like so the natural rate must be negative. It would be much more convincing if we could separately measure the natural rate, but that too needs a model. This paper provides a model whose steady states resemble old fashioned static Keynesian relations, not the dynamic new-Keynesian ones, and a model where one could think about separately measuring the negative natural rate.
"Important" doesn't mean "right" or "conclusive." This model rules out storage, has no money, and hobbles the rate of return on capital, all of which tend to put bounds of zero or above on long-term real interest rates. More thoughts on the slides, which I may write up at more length some day. (Olivier Blanchard discussed the same paper on Friday, bringing in data from around the world. If he posts his slides I'll update.)
Second, Paul Beaudry presented his paper with Dana Galizia, Franck Portier, titled "Reconciling Hayek's and Keynes' Views of Recessions," which Ivan Werning discussed. It was a rather complex model trying to capture overaccumulation and liquidation.
There were two empirical papers. Simon Gilchrist, presented his paper with Raphael Schoenle, Jae Sim, Egon Zakrajsek, "Inflation Dynamics During the Financial Crisis," discussed by Mark Bils. Companies short of cash in the financial crisis raised prices; companies with a lot of cash lowered them. Clean dynamic model, clean data, a nice bit of the micro data analysis going on in macro these days.
Sarah Zubairy presented her paper with Valerie Ramey, "Government Spending Multipliers in Good Times and in Bad: Evidence from U.S. Historical Data," discussed by Yuriy Gorodnichenko. As Valerie has done before, they regress output on military spending shocks to estimate multipliers. Here the question is whether the effects are larger when there is higher unemployment or a low interest rate, with a bunch of small but important methodological improvements. The conclusion is no, and multipliers a bit below one throughout, but much methodological discussion on how one interprets the facts.
There were two "Growth" papers. First, Roland Benabou presented "Forbidden Fruits: The Political Economy of Science, Religion and Growth" with Davide Ticchi and Andrea Vindigni. The basic idea is that religion blocks or adapts to new ideas, going back centuries. History, going back a thousand years, regressions of patents on religiosity, all building to a big model, with section titles like "Inequality, Religion and the Politics of Science."
Paul Romer "discussed" the paper, i.e. gave a long and thoughtful speech, covering religion, social norms, neuroeconoimcs (Southerners faced with a slight insult have big spikes in cortisol levels compared to Northerners), the shocking rate of incarceration in the US, words vs. equations in economics, and lots more.
Last but certainly not least, Ufuk Akcigit presented "Young, Restless and Creative: Openness to Disruption and Creative Innovations" with Daron Acemoglu and Murat Alp Celik, discussed by Sam Kortum, The basic idea is that companies with young CEOs are more likely to make radical innovations rather than incremental ones. A complex model precedes regressions of patent citations on CEO age.
Just how we do economics was a big theme running through all the discussion. Words vs. equations; models and empirical work; and what kinds of things we look at and what kind of work people are doing.
Most of the theory papers had some "motivating" facts. Most of the facts papers and more or less motivating theory. Not one paper wrote down a model, estimated or calibrated its parameters, and compared that model to data. (Gilchrist came pretty close, but more the exception that proves the rule.) This isn't a complaint, really, it's just where we are. The kinds of things people want to investigate are just too hard to write down models rich enough to take to the data.
This point came up again and again. Sam gently chided Ufuk at al for presenting 24 pages of complex model all to "motivate" some regressions. He suggested that the model should be used to guide and constrain regressions, and to give a more structural interpretation to the parameters. Pat Kehoe, asking a question, complained that it's awfully hard to measure a fiscal multiplier with no guidance of which model for its possible operation. He pointed out that any model restricts how many variables together should respond to a fiscal expansion. For example the static Keynesian model says consumption should rise. The real business cycle model gives a multiplier through impoverishing people, which has joint predictions across consumption, labor, etc. Likewise I complained that in wars, the assumption that everything else is on average equal -- made when regressing output on fiscal shocks -- seems a bit stretched.
Similarly, both of the macro theory papers stopped well short of serious confrontation with data. We didn't see anything like the standard fully specified models of the Larry Christiano type, compared to, say, impulse-response functions. The models are so stylized you can't begin to quantify them. (I got off cheap shot pointing out that secular stagnation required deflation in the model. Since we do not have deflation, case closed. It's a cheap shot because I think the model could be easily modified to have stagnation with low positive inflation.) This too is not really a criticism. I've been working with simpler and simpler models, as I find it hard to keep the intuition and quantitative parable aspect alive as models get more complex. You have to walk before you can run. But questions like, how could Ed Prescott and Ellen McGrattan go off and measure the natural rate, are not yet answered.
A similar issue came up in the paper I discussed for Asset Pricing, Aytek Malkhozov, Philippe Mueller, Andrea Vedolin, and Gyuri Venter "Mortgage Risk and the Yield Curve," slides here. It developed a really nice arbitrage-free model with supply effects. And then used the model only to "motivate" regressions of returns on a measure of duration. Though the regression coefficient is tied to structural model parameters, the authors never made that link at all. Well, the model was perhaps too simple to do that. And, everyone else seems to be writing papers the same way. It's not a criticism, here, but an observation on our emerging culture.
Math vs. literature is a similar theme to atheoretical regressions/models as parables vs. estimates and tests. In my 30 years as an economist, our field has become much more literary and less quantitative. In part that reflects a different emphasis. It's really hard to build towards maximum likelyhood tests of effects of religion on the adoption of new ideas. Paul Romer commented on this at length, with "models vs. words" on his slides. In his view, math is a useful language because it removes much of the value-laden elements of language and forces logic to be out in the open. He linked language to us vs. them, social norms, morality, and those pesky cortisol levels. (I'm doing my best to recall a speech, so forgive me Paul if I don't get it all right.) He pointed to my use of "paleo-Keynesian" to describe the static models from the 1960s, guessing nobody would remember anything else from my discussion. When I complained that Paul Krugman invented the term, he pointed out (correctly) that such borrowing just made its use more rhetorically effective. There go the cortisol levels. I'm not sure in the end though whether Paul was approving or bemoaning the shift back towards literature in economic analysis. Certainly his vision for the future of growth theory, centered on values, social norms, biology, and so forth, does not lend itself easily to quantification.
The use of ancient quotations came up several times. I complained a bit about Eggertsson and Mehrotra's long efforts to tie their work to quotes from verbal speculations of Keynes, Alvin Hansen, Paul Krugman and Larry Summers. Their rhetorical device is, "aha, these equations finally explain what some sage of 80 years ago or Important Person today really meant." Ivan Werning really complained about this in Paul Beaudry's presentation. What does this complex piece of well worked out "21st century economics" have to do with long ago muddy debates between Keynes and Hayek? It stands on its own, or it doesn't. (In his view, it did, so why belittle it?)
Yes. Physics does not write papers about "the Newton-Aristotle debate." Our papers should stand on their own too. They are right or wrong if they are logically coherent and describe the data, not if they fulfill the vague speculations of some sage, dead or alive. It's especially unhelpful to try to make this connection, I think, because the models differ quite sharply from the speculations of the sage. Alvin Hansen certainly did not think that a Taylor interest rate rule with a phi parameter greater than one was a central culprit in "secular stagnation." I haven't checked against the speech, but I doubt he thought that inflation would completely cure the problem in the first place.
Sure, history of thought is important; tying ideas to their historical predecessors is important; recognizing the centuries of thinking on money and business cycles is important. But let's stand up for our own generation; we do not exist simply to finally put equations in the mouths of ancient economists.
But, tying it all up, perhaps I'm just being an old fogey. Adam Smith wrote mostly words. Marx like Keynes wrote big complicated books that people spent a century writing about "this is what they really meant." Maybe models are at best quantitative parables. Maybe economics is destined to return to this kind of literary philosophy, not quantified science.
Curious too what was missing. All the macro was decidedly Keynesian. General equilibrium with distortions, anything other than trend on "supply" was noticeable by its absence. So was the discussion. But maybe that's my fault for going to the NBER and not the Minnesota Macro meetings.
A last thought. Economic Fluctuations merged with Growth in the mid 1990s. At the time there was a great confluence of method as well as interest. Growth theorists were studying growth with Bellman equations, dynamic general equilibrium models of innovation and transmission of ideas, thinking about where productivity shocks came from. Macroeconomists were using Bellman equations, and studying dynamic general equilibrium models with stochastic technology, along with various frictions and other propagation mechanisms.
That confluence has now diverged. I enjoyed spending an hour or two thinking about how religion has blocked or adapted to ideas over the centuries, and Paul's view on social norms or neuroeconomics. But I don't really have any expertise to contribute to that debate. Questions like whether young CEOs head more innovative companies, or whether, like deans, what matters is the age of the faculty are a little closer to home, since I spend a lot of time consuming corporate finance. But the average sticky-price macro type does not. Likewise, when Daron Acemoglu, who seems to know everything about everything, has to preface his comments on macro papers with repeated disclaimers of lack of expertise, it's clear that the two fields really have gone their separate ways. Perhaps it's time to merge fluctuations with finance, where we seem to be talking about the same issues and using the same methods, and growth to merge with institutions and political or social economics.
22 comments:
"Yes. Physics does not write papers about the Newton-Aristotle debate. Our papers should stand on their own too."
Physics has a world to perform unbiased repeatable experimentation in. No one needs to debate Aristotlean physics versus Newtonian physics, because they can do their own verification.
Economics (the science of money) has no external unbiased viewpoint. On the simplest level, the economist gets paid in the medium he / she is investigating.I read your slides on the secular stagnation papers. They don't seem to incorporate international forces. You note yourself that lending abroad means that r will not be negative. But this does not consider the special role of the US dollar - what some have dubbed exorbitant privilege. Assets denominated in US dollars should sell at a premium. That is how I understand a negative real rate in the US but not in Australia, Canada, Israel, etc, and why the European Central Bank has ventured into parking fees on reserves held there.
You also point out that storage prevents negative real rates. But we do have a problem with storage. In Canada and Australia there is plenty of talk of housing bubbles. And in London and New York, overseas buyers are even bidding up apartments without looking at them or intending to live in them.Wow, now I wish I could have been there. The philosophy-of-science stuff is actually more interesting to me than the content of the models!
ReplyDeleteReplies- AnonymousJuly 14, 2014 at 12:28 PM
Because you can't understand the models. Try publishing something.
Delete Alternatively, it is because different people are interested in different things. Try broadening your interests.
I also have "trouble with the negative natural rate.", or to be blunt, I think it's hogwash. It's based on the assumption that adjusting interest rates is the only or the only possible way of adjusting demand.
That's nonsense: in a recession, the state could perfectly well go wild with the printing press, i.e. print and spend far too much new money into the economy. That would cure or largely cure the recession, but to deal with the excess demand, interest rates would have to be raised. Indeed, the latter idea is very much what market monetarists like Scott Sumner argue. That is they argue that the central bank will always negate excess fiscal stimulus.- AnonymousJuly 14, 2014 at 5:47 AM
"Perhaps it's time to merge fluctuations with finance, where we seem to be talking about the same issues and using the same methods, and growth to merge with institutions and political or social economics. "
Makes a lot of sense. Although I agree more with the "same issues" than "same methods". I think economics given the nature of the discipline, should be eclectic and open-minded in relation to methodology. We are after all trying to end recessions the best way we can and we should be constantly looking for the best way to do understand their causes. That might not be the way finance currently does things. I think a big criticism in macro-teaching of the last 40 years is a lack of critical reasoning that asks why a certain methodology has become prominent.Replies- AnonymousJuly 14, 2014 at 12:15 PM
"We are after all trying to end recessions the best way we can and we should be constantly looking for the best way to do understand their causes."
Sounds to me (a non-economist scientist) that economics is (again) showing signs of its shakey / uncertain / disputed philosophic foundations.
Why is it the job of the economist to "end recessions"? What bestows ye such a duty / power? - AnonymousJuly 15, 2014 at 2:05 AM
Alright it is the job of politicians who act on the advice of economists.
Whoops that is not right either. Politicians do not act on the advice of economists. Probably not a bad idea either. Unless they want to lose their job. (Economists do not have to worry about their forecasts or prescriptions being wrong or losing their jobs - most of them are tenured professors or work in the finance industry - the latter particularly ingenious at justifying wages and jobs that bear no relation to MP.)
Yep, I tend to agree: "Perhaps it's time to merge fluctuations with finance, where we seem to be talking about the same issues and using the same methods, and growth to merge with institutions and political or social economics." Of course, on the econometric side, the NBER's Forecasting and Empirical Methods in Macro and Finance group did that years ago. Perhaps more on that in my next No Hesitations post.
ReplyDelete- RFloodJuly 14, 2014 at 8:37 AM
I have long given up on keeping up. Regardless, I read recently an excellent "bubbles paper", by Stephano Giglio et al (Boothe) in which they have nearly the exact data one would want from a controlled experiment to resolve if bubbles drove UK property prices. Just to meddle, I proposed a non regression way to exploit their remarkable data. Have a look
ReplyDelete - AnonymousJuly 14, 2014 at 9:07 AM
Do you like Ricardian Equivalence?
No neither do I. That is an example of the New-Classical school going back to the Classics for ideas with the result that we get a degenerate research programme and no good policy ideas. - Neal ReynoldsJuly 14, 2014 at 7:56 PM
"Physics does not write papers about 'the Newton-Aristotle debate.'"
I actually laughed out loud upon reading that!
Another excellent essay! (No, you're not an old fogey!) "I complained a bit about Eggertsson and Mehrotra's long efforts to tie their work to quotes from verbal speculations of Keynes, Alvin Hansen, Paul Krugman and Larry Summers. Their rhetorical device is, "aha, these equations finally explain what some sage of 80 years ago or Important Person today really meant." "
I like historical allusions. Even in physics, the old guys may be worth reading. Certainly that's true of math--- Euclid and Hilbert may not be up to date, but they are suggestive of roads not pursued. Econ ever more so, because it's harder to get a grip on things. What we need to avoid, tho, is discussion of "what Keynes really meant." The reason is that he didn't know what he meant--- he had some good intuitions that we ought to pay attention to, but their value is in stimulating us now to pursue an idea, not to try to rediscover anything.Is economics waiting for it's age of enlightenment?
"The Age of Enlightenment (or simply the Enlightenment or Age of Reason) was a cultural movement of intellectuals beginning in late 17th-century Europe emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition. Its purpose was to reform society using reason, to challenge ideas grounded in tradition and faith, and to advance knowledge through the scientific method."- AnonymousJuly 17, 2014 at 5:35 AM
"Physics does not write papers about 'the Newton-Aristotle debate.'"
Is physics the model that economics should replicate?RepliesAnonymous,
The scientific method is what I believe John is alluding to here.
"The chief characteristic which distinguishes the scientific method from other methods of acquiring knowledge is that scientists seek to let reality speak for itself, supporting a theory when a theory's predictions are confirmed and challenging a theory when its predictions prove false."
From John's article:
"I complained a bit about Eggertsson and Mehrotra's long efforts to tie their work to quotes from verbal speculations of Keynes, Alvin Hansen, Paul Krugman and Larry Summers."
"Our papers should stand on their own too. They are right or wrong if they are logically coherent and describe the data, not if they fulfill the vague speculations of some sage, dead or alive."
What John says is that rather than relying on experimentation to verify / disprove their theory, Eggertsson / Mehrotra instead sought confirmation through the proclamations of "some sage".
The problem with properly applying the scientific method to any endeavor is identifying and eliminating bias and observer effects. An example of observer effect in economics is described here:
Imagine if Newton had to worry about observation effects when formulating classical mechanics. Fortunately for Newton, the apple was emotionless before striking him on the head. If the apple was shy, it might have diverted course. If the apple was aggressive, it might have struck him harder than expected.
Should economics embrace the scientific method - formulate theory, confirm with data?
- AnonymousJuly 17, 2014 at 5:45 AM
"The idea that a good scientific theory must be derived from a formal axiomatic system has little if any foundation in the methodology or history of science. "
"one cannot just dismiss, out of hand, a discipline simply because all of its propositions are not deducible from some set of fundamental propositions."
David Glasner.
I think these comments resonate with a lot of people and touch on things you talk about here making a good counterpart to your post - which was also quite good.
"One cannot just dismiss, out of hand, a discipline simply because all of its propositions are not deducible from some set of fundamental propositions."
If a proposition is not deducible from some set of fundamental proposition then it may be an undiscovered fundamental proposition in and of itself. The number of fundamental propositions can be limitless, just as long as they are logically consistent.
Surely, logical consistency between a group of theories in a field of study must be maintained.- AnonymousJuly 17, 2014 at 10:18 AM
"Surely, logical consistency between a group of theories in a field of study must be maintained."
Within a theory yes. Between theories, no. Most certainly not. That is the difference between a science and a theology. (A theology may reconcile the theory of evolution and creation; but that is not the job of a science or social science).
We have to accept that there may be a different explanation of how things work which is not consistent with how another theory explains how it works. For example a Marxian. Realist or Liberal explanation of the relationship between states. All very plausible and coherent explanations but all cannot be theoretically right at the same time. We use these as reference points. The proof is in the empirical/historical study which should not make any assumptions about anything being axiomatic.
In theory all such theories cannot be right at the same time. In real world complexity, all the theories and none of them are probably going to be right at the same time! Anonymous,
"We have to accept that there may be a different explanation of how things work which is not consistent with how another theory explains how it works...All very plausible and coherent explanations but all cannot be theoretically right at the same time."
Doesn't a government legislated legal framework reduce the number of plausible economic theories?
Granted that legal structure is subject to flux - laws get written, re-written, and destroyed. Granted also, that a legal system is something that is agreed upon by a group of people and may apply only to that group.
Nonetheless, doesn't a government mandated legal system provide a formal axiomatic system under which economics operates?
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