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gravitascivics · 10 months
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WHAT SOCIAL SCIENTISTS CAN OFFER
In the last posting, this blog reviewed the general shortcomings of the social sciences, as an information source.  But it also pointed out that they are better at providing needed information and analysis than most other sources.[1]  To make that report, the blog focused on economics and the work of the Nobel prize winners, Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo.[2]  This posting wants to focus on how the social sciences, as exemplified by economics, can be more amenable to federalist governance and politics – as promoted in this blog.
          To do that, this posting will share with readers two quotes from these economists’ book, Good Economics for Hard Times.  The first quote is:
It is important that this project [to establish a dialogue with the general public that] we be guided by an expansive notion of what human beings want and what constitutes the good life.  Economists have a tendency to adopt a notion of well-being that is often too narrow, some version of income or material consumption.  And yet, all of us need much more than that to have a fulfilling life:  the respect of the community, the comforts of family and friends, dignity, lightness, pleasure.  The focus on income alone is not just a convenient shortcut.  It is distorting lens that often has led the smartest economists down the wrong path, policy makers to the wrong decisions, and all too many of us to wrong obsessions.[3]
Here, this blogger thinks, is a call for a more communal, as opposed to individualistic, mindset when considering what economists and social scientists in general should focus upon.  Of course, the more individual view – the one that prevails today – simply reflects the dominance of the natural rights view. 
This blog has dedicated a great deal of space to describe and explain this view, but in a few words, it promotes the claim that individuals have the right to do as they please as long as they do not prohibit others from the same rights.  One can readily see that with this basic belief, resulting study in economics will emphasize income, wealth, and securing material assets.  That is, what most economists highlight in their approach to the study of economics – as the quote indicates – and counters what Banerjee and Duflo are suggesting.
          This blog has also promoted a federalist view – the liberated federalism construct – and has argued that it should replace the natural rights view in guiding the development of civics curriculum in American schools.  In a few words, that would be a curriculum that establishes the fact that the nation’s governance is based on a compact – a sacred agreement that brings together its citizenry under the relationship of a partnership.  A meaningful step in that direction would be to adopt what these economists suggest for their discipline and, by implication, for all of the social sciences.
          And the other quote gives readers more substance to what Banerjee and Duflo suggest:
A better conversation must start by acknowledging the deep human desire for dignity and human contact, and to treat it not as a distraction, but as a better way to understand each other, and set ourselves free from what appear to be intractable oppositions.  Restoring human dignity to its central place … set off a profound rethinking of economic priorities and the ways in which societies care for their members, particularly when they are in need.[4]
Equally, if all the social sciences took this recommendation to heart, they would be a great deal more useful in reestablishing a federalist nation in thought, feeling, and action.
[1] Robert Gutierrez, “Should One Listen to Social Scientists?”, Gravitas:  A Voice for Civics, December 5, 2023, accessed December 8, 2023, URL:  https://gravitascivics.blogspot.com/.  Use the archives link.
[2] Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo, Good Economics for Hard Times (New York, NY:  Public Affairs, 2019).
[3] Ibid., 8.
[4] Ibid., 8.
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Episode 174 - Economics
This episode we’re talking about the genre of Economics! We discuss economic philosophy, Excel spreadsheets, micro vs macro, and more!
You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, or your favourite podcast delivery system.
In this episode
Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards
Things We Read (or tried to…)
Edible Economics: A Hungry Economist Explains the World by Ha-Joon Chang
Poisoned Wells: The Dirty Politics of African Oil by Nicholas Shaxson
Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives by Siddharth Kara
Communism for Kids by Bini Adamczak
Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails by Yanis Varoufakis, translated by Jacob Moe
Other Media We Mentioned
Soccernomics by Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff
Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World by Rutger Bregman
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa 
Adam Hochschild
The Colour of Magic by Terry Prachett
“Perhaps there is something in this reflected-sound-of-underground-spirits? It was a cumbersome phrase. Rincewind tried to get his tongue around the thick syllables that were the word in Twoflower's own language.
What Is to Be Done? Burning Questions of Our Movement by Vladimir Lenin (Wikipedia)
Links, Articles, and Things
If Books Could Kill - Freakonomics
Fear the Boom and Bust: Keynes vs. Hayek (YouTube)
Fight of the Century: Keynes vs. Hayek - Economics Rap Battle Round Two
Peter Singer (Wikipedia)
Unspeakable Conversations: Harriet McBryde Johnson on debating Peter Singer
“He insists he doesn't want to kill me. He simply thinks it would have been better, all things considered, to have given my parents the option of killing the baby I once was.”
If Books Could Kill - Rich Dad Poor Dad
Saltwater and freshwater economics (Wikipedia)
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (Wikipedia)
Another normal day of mining in Africa (Reddit)
Belt and Road Initiative (Wikipedia)
Report exposes solar panel industry Uyghur forced labour links
Ouija (Wikipedia)
Chinchilla (Wikipedia)
Social media is doomed to die (The Verge)
Reddit: Antiwork
Reddit: Late Stage Capitalism
25 Economics books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors
Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.
Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed
Get Good with Money: Ten Simple Steps to Becoming Financially Whole by Tiffany Aliche
Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems by Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo
Consumed: On Colonialism, Climate Change, Consumerism, and the Need for Collective Change by Aja Barber
The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans—And How We Can Fix It by Dorothy A. Brown
23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang
Edible Economics: A Hungry Economist Explains the World by Ha-Joon Chang
Extreme Money: Masters of the Universe and the Cult of Risk by Satyajit Das
The Reconciliation Manifesto: Recovering the Land, Rebuilding the Economy by Grand Chief Ronald Derrickson and Arthur Manuel
Wolf Hustle: A Black Woman on Wall Street by Cin Fabré
Build the Damn Thing: How to Start a Successful Business If You're Not a Rich White Guy by Kathryn Finney
Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World by Anand Giridharadas
Indigenomics: Taking a Seat at the Economic Table by Carol Anne Hilton
The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex edited by Incite! Women of Colour Against Violence
Upholding Indigenous Economic Relationships: Nehiyawak Narratives by Shalene Wuttunee Jobin
How We Can Win: Race, History and Changing the Money Game That's Rigged by Kimberly Jones
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee
Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice by Jessica Gordon Nembhard
Can’t We Just Print More Money? Economics in Ten Simple Questions by Rupal Patel
The Black Tax: The Cost of Being Black in America by Shawn D. Rochester
Karl Marx's Ecosocialism: Capital, Nature, and the Unfinished Critique of Political Economy by Kohei Saito
The Wisdom of Sustainability: Buddist Economics for the 21st Century by Sulak Sivaraksa
Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance by Edgar Villanueva
The Great Economists: How Their Ideas Can Help Us Today by Linda Yueh
Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism by Muhammad Yunus
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नोबेल सम्मानित अभिजीत बनर्जी की तारीफ
नोबेल पुरस्कार से सम्मानित भारतीय मूल के अमेरिकी अर्थशास्त्री अभिजीत बनर्जी को लेकरकांग्रेस के दिग्गज नेता राहुल गांधी ने बीजेपी पर निशाना साधा है। राहुल गांधी ने कहा है कि ये (बीजेपी) बड़े लोग नफरत से अंधे हो गए हैं और उन्हें नहीं पता कि पेशेवर क्या होता है। बनर्जी को राहुल गांधी ने कहा कि आप उन्हें (बीजेपी) यह नहीं समझा सकते हैं, भले ही आपने एक दशक तक कोशिश की हो।राहुल ने बनर्जी को कहा कि लाखों भारतीयों को आपके काम पर गर्व है। राहुल का ये बयान मोदी सरकार में भारतीय अर्थव्यवस्था को लेकर दिया गया है।
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New Post has been published on Books by Caroline Miller
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The budget pamphlet in my mailbox was titled “Financial Realities.”  I laughed.  As a person once responsible for a  $200 million budget, I know financial realities are imaginary.  Budgets are guestimates of the future based on the unlikely assumption that history will repeat itself. Smoke and mirrors some call it.  Nobel Prize winner Abhijit Banerjee confessed as much. Sometimes economists are right, and sometimes they are wrong. The same could be said about political projections. I’m baffled that President Joe Biden’s accomplishments have done little to lift his polling numbers. Opinion, it seems, informs opinion rather than facts.  Perhaps our parents were influencers. Or our peer group. Or our religion.  Education appears to have the least effect. Knowledge is easy to set aside if it conflicts with what we want to believe. Biden’s achievements in the first year-and-a-half of his presidency are so historic I wonder what more the public expects from the man. And how am I to understand that Republicans and not his party threaten to win control of the House in November? I can only surmise that achievement and reward aren’t always traveling companions.    Harry Truman faced similar hurdles. Historians consider him to be one of our greatest presidents.  Yet, he got little respect in his time. Critics called him plodding, stubborn, and undramatic. His decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan to end World War II should have made them eat their words. Not to mention the Marshall Plan, the Truman Doctrine, and his support for the United Nations – decisions that set the free world on a new course. Myth may be the problem.  One generation whispers to the next, passing its legends along like a genetic code.  A persistent one is that Republicans manage the economy better than Democrats. Data reflect otherwise.  History reveals that Democrats grew the economy by 4.4% each year versus 2.5% for Republicans.    Democratic presidents also tend to have better results when it comes to raising home values, increasing healthcare coverage, raising wages, and boosting the performance of the S&P.  They make the average person richer, too. To be fair, not all experts agree on the data. One study mirrors Baneriee’s ambivalence.  …we cannot conclude that either party does any betters (or any worse) than the other when it comes to managing the economy.   One fact is beyond dispute. The Biden administration has taken the biggest step to address climate change in American history. Some people wanted to reserve more money for that purpose in the Inflation Reduction Act.  Even so, environmentalists agree the amount in the bill will reduce U. S. carbon emissions 40% by 2030.  My projection for the future is that one day historians will compare Biden’s Presidential accomplishments with those of Harry Truman’s and find that the men stand shoulder to shoulder.  I wish I could live long enough to say, “I told you so.”   About the present, I’m less hopeful. Too much of the country remains in thrall to Donald Trump. Should Attorney Merrick Garland find evidence at Mar-a-Lago of the 45th President’s criminal behavior, calls for revolution will rise in certain parts of the country. I hope I’m wrong. But I’m inclined to agree with Mark Twain.  Truth has no defense against a fool determined to believe a lie.  
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Poor Economics
The winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics upend the most common assumptions about how economics works in this gripping and disruptive portrait of how poor people actually live. Why do the poor borrow to save? Why do they miss out on free life-saving immunizations, but pay for unnecessary drugs? In Poor Economics, Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo, two award-winning MIT professors, answer…
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gravitascivics · 10 months
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SHOULD ONE LISTEN TO SOCIAL SCIENTISTS?
From this blog’s February 19, 2021, posting, the following is offered:
The very first sentence of a book by the Nobel Prize winners Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo about economic challenges is “We live in an age of growing polarization.”[1]  Early in their book they cite the following: 
81% of Americans who identify with one of the major parties has a negative opinion of the other party;
61% of Democrats classify Republicans as being racists, sexists, or bigots; 55% of Republicans dismiss Democrats as spiteful; and
Roughly one of every three Americans expresses disappointment if a close family member were to marry someone of the opposing political party.[2]
Other works cited in this blog support this overall descriptive conclusion by providing further relevant statistics.[3]
With that backdrop, the citizenry, according to press reports, has been feeding on misinformation from social media.  The claim here is that if one strives for a future that incorporates a federalist general view of governance and politics – one in which citizens view fellow citizens as partners in the nation’s federated union – this general state of the citizenry is not helpful.
More specifically, this blog promotes this federalist view and for that view to be viable, people need to agree, to a significant degree, on what is objective truth.  And for that to take hold, there must be sources of information generally accepted as reliable.  Since the years of the Enlightenment, Western civilization has looked to science as an important source of such truth. 
Here, this posting visits the science of economics and “asks” a pair of honored economists, the above cited Banerjee and Duflo, as to the standing economists enjoy – or suffer through – as being truth sources among the American people.  In doing so, this posting provides an interview format in which this blogger will offer questions he believes the Nobel Prize winners answer in their book, Good Economics for Hard Times. 
Of course, this is an imagined interview in which this blogger selects passages from the book to answer the questions he is posing.
Question:  Much has been said about the current political environment and most of it has not been positive.  How would you describe the times?
Answer:  “We seem to be back in the Dickensian world of Hard Times, with the haves facing off against the increasingly alienated have-nots, with no resolution in sight.”[4]
Question:  And in terms of governments – particularly the US government – what has been the response of such a “world”?
Answer:  “[N]ations are doing very little to solve the most pressing challenges of our time; they continue to feed the anger and the distrust that polarize us, which makes us even more incapable of talking, thinking together, doing something about them.  It often feels like a vicious cycle.”[5]
Question:  What has been the response of economists to these conditions?
Answer:  “Economists have a lot to say about these big issues.  … What the most recent research has to say, it turns out, is often surprising, especially to those used to the pat answers coming out of TV ‘economists’ and high school textbooks.  It [the research] can shed new light on those debates.”[6]
Question:  You two have been quoted as to the degree in which Americans do not trust what economists have to say.  Can you elaborate?
Answer:  “[Regarding how respondents answered our questions they] tended to be more pessimistic than the economists … Our respondents were also more likely to think the rise of robots and AI would lead to widespread unemployment, and much less likely to think they would create extra wealth to compensate those who lost out. … [But] the key finding is that, overall, the average academic economist thinks very differently from the average American.  Across all twenty questions [we used], there is a gaping chasm of 35 percentage points between how many economists agree with a particular statement and how many average Americans do.”[7]
Question:  Generally, how has this chasm between economists and the American public affected your view of the well-being of the American nation?
Answer:  “From this, it seems a large part of the general public has entirely stopped listening to economists about economics. …
The … goal [of our effort] is to share some of [economists’] expertise and reopen a dialogue about the most urgent and divisive topics of our times.
            For that, we need to understand what undermines trust in economists.”[8]
Question:  How, generally, do economists share your concerns?
Answer:  “The Economist magazine once computed just how far the IMF’s [International Monetary Fund’s] forecasts were off on average over the period 2000-2014.  For two years from the time of prediction (say, the growth rate in 2014 predicted in 2012), the average forecast error was 2.8 percentage points.  That’s somewhat better than if they had chosen a random number between … 2 percent and 10 percent every year, but about as bad as just assuming a constant growth rate of 4 percent.  We suspect these kinds of things contribute substantially to the general skepticism of economics.
            Another big factor that contributes to the trust gap is that academic economists hardly ever take time to explain the often complex reasoning behind their more nuanced conclusions. …  Today’s media culture does not naturally allow a space for subtle or long-winded explanations.”[9]
Let this blogger retake the helm.  What seems to be at the heart of this state is the nature of the social sciences, not just economics. 
For one thing, as J. Robert Rossman and Mathew D. Duerden point out, each person is unique, and if a science sets out to explain why humans behave the way they do, the number of factors are basically overwhelming.[10]  Even at the group level of analysis, too many things – mostly unpredicted – come into play.
          Comparing economists to physicists and engineers, Banerjee and Duflo state, “Economists are more like plumbers; we solve problems with a combination of intuition grounded in science, some guesswork aided by experience, and a bunch of pure trial and error.”[11]  And they add, they, economists, get things wrong regularly.
          So, where does all this lack of certitude leave civics teachers or those counting on the social sciences to provide truth?  It leaves them, according to these economists, with a reality similar to how medicine leaves people; that is with good guesses based on factual claims that solicit enough faith to justify courses of action.
And that surely outperforms mere ungrounded intuition, random guesswork, or other forms of prognostication.  The next posting will add to this review of economic “truth” and how it can be better directed toward the needs of a federated citizenry.  With that, one would benefit by relying on social science findings, at least as one compares them to other sources of information.
[1] Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo, Good Economics for Hard Times (New York, NY:  Public Affairs, 2019), 1.
[2] Ibid.
[3] Robert Gutierrez, “Who to Trust,” Gravitas:  A Voice for Civics, accessed December 2, 2023, URL:  https://gravitascivics.blogspot.com/2021_02_14_archive.html.
[4] Banerjee and Duflo, Good Economics for Hard Times, 2.
[5] Ibid., 2-3.
[6] Ibid., 3.
[7] Ibid., 4.
[8] Ibid., 4-5.
[9] Ibid., 6.
[10] J. Robert Rossman and Mathew D. Duerden, Designing Experiences (New York, NY:  Columbia University Press, 2019).
[11] Banerjee and Duflo, Good Economics for Hard Times, 7.
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Prannoy Roy's Townhall With Experts On What Next For Indian Economy: Highlights
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<!– –> New Delhi: After this pandemic Budget, what comes next? Where is India heading? How will India come back on the growth trajectory? In the first part of this four-part Townhall, Prannoy Roy discusses these questions with the world’s leading experts, four of whom are Nobel Prize winners. Read what Paul Milgrom, Abhijit Banerjee, Michael Kremer, Raghuram Rajan, Kaushik Basu and Amartya Sen…
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Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee’s suggestion that foreign investment be allowed in the beleaguered banking sector is just the help it needs. It will boost the economy and lead to efficient use of resources. By Shivanand Pandit Nobel prize winner Abhijit Banerjee has stated that India must permit foreign investment in the banking sector and that confining capital infusion in this segment to Indian…
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"Lack Of Trust": Abhijit Banerjee To NDTV On Farm Laws, Stalled Talks
“Lack Of Trust”: Abhijit Banerjee To NDTV On Farm Laws, Stalled Talks
Nobel Prize winner Abhijit Banerjee spoke to NDTV on the farm laws and the Covid pandemic New Delhi: The coronavirus pandemic is not a good time to have a conversation about farm laws, Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee told NDTV Monday night, as he highlighted a “deep lack of trust” between farmers and the centre as one reason for the breakdown in talks. Mr Banerjee advised the centre to…
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"Lack Of Trust," Says Nobel Laureate Abhijit Banerjee On Farm Laws, Stalled Talks
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The coronavirus pandemic is not a good time to have a conversation about farm laws, Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee told NDTV Monday night, as he highlighted a “deep lack of trust” between farmers and the centre as one reason for the breakdown in talks.
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"Lack Of Trust": Abhijit Banerjee To NDTV On Farm Laws, Stalled Talks
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The coronavirus pandemic is not a good time to have a conversation about farm laws, Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee told NDTV Monday night, as he highlighted a “deep lack of trust” between farmers and the centre as one reason for the breakdown in talks.
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Poor Economics
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FROM THE WINNERS OF THE 2019 NOBEL PRIZE IN ECONOMICS'Refreshingly original, wonderfully insightful . . . an entirely new perspective' GuardianWhy would a man in Morocco who doesn't have enough to eat buy a television?Why do the poorest people in India spend 7 percent of their food budget on sugar?Does having lots of children actually make you poorer?This eye-opening book overturns the myths about what it is like to live on very little, revealing the unexpected decisions that millions of people make every day. Looking at some of the most paradoxical aspects of life below the poverty line - why the poor need to borrow in order to save, why incentives that seem effective to us may not be for them, and why, despite being more risk-taking than high financiers, they start businesses but rarely grow them - Banerjee and Duflo offer a new understanding of the surprising way the world really works.Winner of the FT Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award 2011
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