https://prberg-2019.netlify.app/tags/economics/Recent content in economics on @PaulRBergHugo -- gohugo.ioen-USThu, 07 Feb 2019 01:02:56 +0000https://prberg-2019.netlify.app/post/2019/02/07/serendipity-visa/Thu, 07 Feb 2019 01:02:56 +0000https://prberg-2019.netlify.app/post/2019/02/07/serendipity-visa/Preamble Some of my recent conversations touched on the subject of geographical leverage. It might be just a statistical outlier, but the topic intrigued me, so I cut off my commute podcasts to give the issue a little bit of thought. The result is what I call a Serendipity Visa: a peculiar way to imagine immigration, where the butterfly effect becomes an indispensable feature of society. Although the discourse extends mostly to the US, the underpinning rationale can be extrapolated to any other capital-concentrated areas.https://prberg-2019.netlify.app/post/2018/12/31/critique-radical-markets/Mon, 31 Dec 2018 19:22:34 +0200https://prberg-2019.netlify.app/post/2018/12/31/critique-radical-markets/Context Even if I’m far from being qualified to review academic writings on economics, I find the world of distributed ledgers and cryptoeconomic theory a decent stepping stone for social sciences. I’ve been bashing my head against the wall with blockchains for the good part of my recent history, so I have faith that this article will be read and appreciated by someone, somewhere, sometime. I’ll further assume that you’re familiar with the social reforms presented in Radical Markets.https://prberg-2019.netlify.app/post/2018/12/24/radical-markets/Mon, 24 Dec 2018 00:19:11 +0200https://prberg-2019.netlify.app/post/2018/12/24/radical-markets/Context Although an engineer by heart, I couldn’t help but get my feet wet with economics since blockchains became part of my daily pastimes. Vitalik’s been a massive influence in this direction, as most of his writing involves subtle cryptoeconomic theory - imbued by that, the Ethereum community and countless shout outs to Radical Markets (RM), I decided to give it a go. Now, I find the policies proposed in the book exceptionally intriguing, but I do feel that the devil is in the details and there has to be a lot of experimentation before even trying to implement RM at scale.