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@casperadmin i may have mispoke. i don't intend for there to be a simulation but rather a fully fledged piece of planning software that is as easy to use as those toy examples. i want it to be an actu...

Hello everyone, I think it is important that the computer-assisted planning community develop a piece of planning software which is as easy to use as microsoft excel or one of those simple economy si...

@tbrandon woah! nice addition. i remember hearing so much about the genius of cobb-douglas during my econ undergrad and being confused since it just seemed like a function with 4 unknowns.

Bit of a long explanation, but a friend of mine was watching a video and offhandedly it mentioned the USSR. The claim is that the Russian SSR used all the other SSRs as raw material sources, they woul...

woah! i'm expecting we'll hear how horrible the human rights abuses are in Ghana to justify a war within the coming months. probably not something on par with the propaganda around iraq and libya but ...

This is such a cool idea! I personally feel some of the best propaganda is showing how taxdollars could have been spent (compare military aid to ukraine with the cost of feeding every hungry american ...

@thardin lmao🤣

@thardin @joe found it!

@thardin that's a great point!i think i remember reading something similar. there was a study where they asked a bunch of business administrators and managers what they're marginal cost curves were an...

Here's a nice excerpt and walkthru of a Samuelson and Nordhaus textbook if you're looking for laugh.  Keen-Debunking-Economics-Page-62.png

Posted by: @joe So mathematically, in 1953, it was shown that to make a market demand curve obey the law of demand and not simply be any polynomial imaginable, there an only be 1 consumer and 1 commo...

Accidentally posted and ran out of time to edit. 4. Supply in Neoclassical Economics is a calculus error. No, seriously.This one is fun and simple. To make a supply curve, neoclassical econ needs it t...

We're all aware on this forum how much literal junk and pseudoscience and lies there are in most fields of economics. I think it would be useful for us and others to have a place where we can collect ...

i've avoided the news forums to prevent controversy. there's a nice community here and i don't want to get into debates or anything.

@casperadmin @thardin i was referring to @tbrandon who mentioned wanting to do one in the post.