The modernity of detective fiction
This post draws on Tuili Da Wuxian to think about the narrative appeal of detective fiction and, above all, its relationship to modernity.
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The world will never be the same again after you step into this strange and wonderful garden of thought. And when you look back on this experience many years later, even the things you didn't understand at the time have matured --Samuelson
Existentialism and Social Science: Flowers Blooming from Nothingness
Some reflections on my existential crisis last year, together with a few memorable lines, ending with a meditation on the value of studying the social sciences.
The Origin of Rich Species: A Lamp Can Light a Room Dark for a Thousand Years
The Origin of Rich Species challenges the mainstream academic reading of the Malthusian trap and builds a Darwinian view of economic history.
The Mathematical History of Economics
Reading notes on Shi Shuzhong’s book about the development of mathematical tools in economics.
One-Time Government Investment and Long-Run Industrial Development
Three papers on government investment and long-run economic effects
Recording a Dream and AI Dream Interpretation
Recording a dream and interpretations by different AIs
Institutions, Politics, Democracy, and Arrow's Impossibility Theorem
Historical Context of Political Economy, Institutional Economics, and Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem
The conceit of economics: some recent thoughts
Some recent reflections from classes, the internet, and conversations with teachers, classmates, and senior students.