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Social science
and government aims
Social
science and government aims
Proposed standards for goal setting and research. Explains some common errors about well-being,
prices, demography, costs etc. Argument for standards is partly: Without regulation of governments and
scientists, even if some academics make
progress in understanding this doesn’t deter governments from making bad goals
and unwarranted claims. (2006)
Thoughts
on the adequacy of social science
Correspondence and other documents 2000-3, with quotations
from others making similar points.
Mostly on errors in economic
theory concerning demography.
Five axioms, four puzzles and four
suggestions on hunger in the human species
Social scientists’ errors may help
explain diverging international statistics.
Axioms needed. (2004)
Discoverer
of global poverty error calls for statistics on survival
Economists forgot average food
needs are rising. Newspaper
article. (2003)
Flaw in simple economic analysis
To talk of “poverty reduction”
without looking at survival rates (2000)
Challenges idea common among economists
that income measures profit. (2003)
Economics
is not utilitarian
Economists need to distinguish between average rise
and rise in the average. (2002)
Economics of survival
Letter to Jeffrey Sachs. Survival data are needed for adding up progress of
individuals. (2001)
Statistics and
survival (2001)
Letter to editor of the Economist.
Why
macroeconomics is not utilitarian (2003)
New directions in
development economics: How to make the Millennium Goal on poverty effective,
2003
A non-economist's
view of World Bank research, 2004
Music
Numbering system for guitar tunings and other uses
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