Georg Weizsäcker
Microeconomist, Behavioral Economist, Author of "Misunderstandings: False Beliefs in Communication"
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- "..._the_ textbook..." - nice
- Der einzige in Merz Regierungserklärung genannter "Ansatz" zur Klimapolitik ist der Co2-Preis. Ein Instrument, das schon 2 Jahrzehnte existiert. Und: Bislang belastet er ärmere Menschen relativ zu ihrem Einkommen deutlich stärker als reichere. Wo ist ein Plan, eine Idee, ein Interesse?
- CO2-Bepreisung konsequent umzusetzen wäre schon einen weiteren Versuch wert. Ich finden aber den nächsten Satz bedenklich: Wenn die Regierung sagt, sie wolle nichts "im Staatshaushalt verschwinden lassen", schürt sie die Zweifel an sich selbst. Knoten im Taschentuch: Unser Staat ist eine gute Sache!
- Gaining credibility by not maximizing income
- Harvard president takes 25 percent pay cut amid funding battle with Trump Harvard President Alan Garber has decided to take a 25 percent pay cut as the university faces multiple financial hits in its battle with the Trump administration. thehill.com/homenews/edu...
- The president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany argues for allowing aid to enter Gaza. 👍 www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/schu...
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- Gratuliere!
- „ridiculous and dangerous don’t contradict each other“ (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung‘s fitting summary of this „kingdom“) www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/w...
- Thank you, to colleagues in 🇫🇷 and 🇩🇪, for adding these important quantifications to the tariff discussion — PDF in English 👇 Overall, the strategic situation of the EU appears not too bad www.sachverstaendigenrat-wirtschaft.de/fileadmin/da...
- EINE NEUE ORDNUNG IM WELTHANDEL: Wie die EU auf die US-Zollpolitik reagieren sollte. Neuer Policy Brief des „Deutsch-Französischen Rats der Wirtschaftsexperten“ zum Thema #Zollpolitik Die Erhaltung der Offenheit des Welthandels muss Kernziel der EU bleiben. Dies erfordert:
- Among the many good things about teaching decision theory: Risk seeking also goes by the name "risk loving" so that you may write on the board 👨🏫 loving = seeking and trust that this insight is one to look at and smile.
- 1/n I just attended a cool lecture by Y. Gorodnichenko on measuring uncertainty in inflation expectations through surveys ( www.nber.org/papers/w33014 ) I'm now trying to reconcile the gap between present practices and my current research on the changing status of surveys in econ since the 1940s
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- I most blurredly agree.
- Interesting historical perspective - thank you! - the fact that @ygorodnichenko.bsky.social and many more people (I, too) use „beliefs“ and „expectations“ interchangably is related to the framework that you ask about. One may say we stick to subjective expected utility theory as close as possible.
- 1/n I just attended a cool lecture by Y. Gorodnichenko on measuring uncertainty in inflation expectations through surveys ( www.nber.org/papers/w33014 ) I'm now trying to reconcile the gap between present practices and my current research on the changing status of surveys in econ since the 1940s
