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signal

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Living Economics Part 1: Stimulus-response on the supply side

Living Economics Part 1: Stimulus-response on the supply side

This is the first in a series of blogs that aims to connect founding ideas in economics to life in our modern world. A good place to start is with Adam Smith (1723-1790), and takes that core idea of his that has grown into an identity-confirming mantra for economists plying

Book Review: The Signal and the Noise

Book Review: The Signal and the Noise

Ever since he took the world of political punditry by storm in 2008 with his electoral prediction website, FiveThirtyEight, Nate Silver has been one of the more high profile stats-gurus going around. Having been an avid follower of his blog (before and after its move to The New York Times)