The Adventures of Shylock Holmes

One pound of inference, no more, no less. No humbug, no cant, but only inference. This task done, and he would go free.

Sunday, November 19, 2017

On the thorniness of historical counterfactuals

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Both the economist and the historian are students of human organisations and behaviour. The economist (at least in his empiricist manife...
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Wednesday, November 1, 2017

The Imperfect Vision of the Past

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As Mencius Moldbug noted , if the past is a foreign country, then a reactionary is a patriot of that country. But the past being past, the...
Friday, September 29, 2017

George Lunt and the Tragedy of the Civil War

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Apologies, my dear readers (if any of you still exist) for my extended absence. A combination of moving house, work being busy, and life in ...
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Monday, August 7, 2017

No True Communism

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As the estimable Mr Moldbug famously put it , America is a communist country. This is one of those statements that, on first glance, strik...
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Monday, July 17, 2017

The fastest way in

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"Nature," as Mr Emerson once noted , "has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended." A ...
Sunday, July 2, 2017

On the time-series, the cross-section, and epistemic humility

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One of the advantages of the economist's training is just the ability to instinctively think in terms of empirical tests. There's a ...
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Friday, June 9, 2017

The End of Empire

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As I mentioned last time, I’ve been listening to Patrick Wyman’s excellent podcast series “ The Fall of Rome ”. One of the things that’s m...
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Friday, May 26, 2017

The economist's case for at least agnosticism about Bitcoin

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As far as I can tell, the primary problem with Bitcoin is that after you've bought it, you become medically incapable of shutting the @#...
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