Learning means that behaviour is not stationary

Stationary processes | The Leisure of the Theory Class:

"I said earlier that in stationarity environment, the point in time which we denote by does not correspond to anything about the process itself but only reflect the point in time in which we start observing the process. In this example this is indeed the case with Craig, who starts observing the coin process at time . It is not true for us. Our subject matter is not the coin, but Craig. And time has a special meaning for Craig. Bottom line: Rational agent in a stationary environment will typically not behave in a stationary way."

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Trade

CONVERSABLE ECONOMIST: Evidence on the Samuelson Conjecture: "For a useful starting point to thinking about how the rise of emerging economies like China affect global trade, I recommend a symposium in the Spring 2012 issue of JEP. Gordon H. Hanson starts with "The Rise of Middle Kingdoms: Emerging Economies in Global Trade."  "Gains from Trade when Firms Matter," by Marc J. Melitz and Daniel Trefler, looks at the benefits of trade offers introduction to modern models of trade driven from variety, shifts toward more efficient firms, and technological gains. For an introduction to models of international trade based on by differences in relative productivity across countries--like the model used by di Giovanni, Levchenko, and Zhang--that same has a useful article called "Putting Ricardo to Work," by Jonathan Eaton and Samuel Kortum. Finally, Jonathan Haskel, Robert Z. Lawrence, Edward E.  Leamer, and Matthew J. Slaughter look at "Globalization and U.S. Wages: Modifying  Classic Theory to Explain Recent Facts." "



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Money and Entropy — Design Matters — Medium

Money and Entropy — Design Matters — Medium: "This all sounds terribly wonkish and academic, but understanding money in a scientific sense is important given what you can do with it (and the problems a lack of it create)."



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The real 10 algorithms that dominate our world — Medium

The real 10 algorithms that dominate our world — Medium: "The other day, while I was navigating Reddit I found an interesting post that was called The 10 Algorithms That Dominate Our World by the author George Dvorsky which was trying to explain the importance that algorithms have in our world today and which ones are the most important for our civilization."



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