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Re: All the King's Horses (4.00 / 4)

I would be a fan of making computer models/simulations of the economy more generally accessible, if only to better inform political debate. The key thing to be aware of, howeverare the assumptions which underlie the model - as these can bias the entire result sets towards some options and against others.

The key to this would be having the code open source AND having an extensively and collaboratively annotated code. The point of the endeavor would be to examine, test and refine the assumptions and how they are implemented in code.

As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."

by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Fri Apr 24th, 2009 at 11:08:12 AM EST
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Re: All the King's Horses (none / 1)

Something in the LISP family... (before you roll your eyes at this, consider it includes LOGO and R...)

Most economists teach a theoretical framework that has been shown to be fundamentally useless. -- James K. Galbraith

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sun Apr 26th, 2009 at 04:01:00 AM EST
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Re: All the King's Horses (none / 1)

Ah, memories. All your GNUS R belong to us.

Now where are we going and what's with the handbasket?

by budr on Sun Apr 26th, 2009 at 01:10:12 PM EST
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