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alberto_cottica

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Post-growth economist, citizen, runner. Network science, complex systems, digital anthropology, collective intelligence. Co-founder of Edgeryders, currently at UNDP Accelerator Labs. Ex minor rockstar. Thoughts my own.

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alberto_cottica, (edited ) to medical
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On the difference between academic research and policy research, from an African perspective.

"Combined, all these factors reinforce the preponderance of incrementalist apolitical/technocratic tweaking and household/individual-centric interventions as the smart way to make development policy, rather than valiant quests towards broad-based macroeconomic transformation."

https://www.africanistperspective.com/p/there-is-a-lot-more-to-policy-research

alberto_cottica,
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HELL YEAH "Instead of imagining a do-gooder policy planner out to implement first-best solutions abstracted from context, policy research should strive to make nth-best recommendations that are robust to governments’ fiscal and administrative-bureaucratic capacities as well as the realities of local distributive politics."

alberto_cottica, (edited ) to random
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NEOCLASSICAL ECONOMISTS: Here’s an elegant model. It says that the economy rewards us on the basis of our productivity.

EVERYONE: Nice! But your assumptions are bizarre (Murray Gell-Mann: “You guys really believe that?”).

KAHNEMAN AND TVERSKY: Yep, assumptions conflict withobserved behavior in the lab.

POLANYI: That model never existed, and can never exist. Human societies treat it as extreme dislocation and react by producing fascism.

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alberto_cottica,
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MAUSS: Hm, interesting. Why is it that people find this thing so unfair and intolerable? And what would a fair model look like? Let’s develop one!

KEYNES: That model leads to disastrous policies.

SRAFFA: Even in pure theory the model is inconsistent.

NEOCLASSICAL ECONOMISTS: Lalala we cannot hear you.

This is unscientific.

The whole thread, which started on economic anthropology's origins in the work of Mauss on gifts: https://edgeryders.eu/t/marcel-mauss-a-founding-father-of-sci-fi-economic-anthropology/14500?u=alberto

europesays, to climate
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https://www.europesays.com/1106868/ You can start applying for the American Climate Corps next month

alberto_cottica,
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@europesays come on @EU_Commission , let's do the same. You want an economist, even if as an accountant, I'm in.

alberto_cottica, to Economics
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If you live in the European Union, I would ask, as a personal favour, that you consider signing this petition for a tax on great wealth. It is reasonable; it would have major impact if put into place; it is very feasible (no revision of the Treaties needed). It is the brainchild of French economist Thomas Piketty, a leading scholar of inequality. https://tax-the-rich.eu

alberto_cottica,
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Thank you all so much! It means a lot. @PJFDF @AidanK @chrimbus, @tizian, @priscillaharing, @Nuuskis, @can, @mutter01 , @tshirtman, @slothrop
Abot the point by @musicman: I guess the reasoning is that the rich pay almost no taxes, but distort real estate markets (too many luxury homes, not enough affordable housing), so if they leave... it's no disaster, and it may be beneficial.

alberto_cottica,
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@Varpie That's a great point. Where are the Luxembourgers and the Maltese when we need them? Also thanks to @dana_cz , @matthew3, @zoldbergForPresident (yes, authentication runs on national implementations of EIDAS, which are quite patchy) @edgeofeurope

alberto_cottica,
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@kramann not sure... I do see 15K+ signatures from Germany. I myself signed through the Belgian eID, which is itself not the best implementation of EIDAS.

alberto_cottica,
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@ook @vaurora @KatS I stand corrected. It is, indeed, a European Citizen Initiative. Like you say, citizens can sign it and non-citizens cannot, regardless of residency.

alberto_cottica,
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@KatS no worries, Kat. Only EU nationals are entitled to sign. Even if you manage to get a signature through as a non-national, when it is time to verify the signatures the national certification authorities will throw it out. Thanks for trying, though. :-) @vaurora @ook

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    alberto_cottica,
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    @rbreich have you seen this? https://tax-the-rich.eu . Does not look like it will make it to Parliament, not without a push.

    alberto_cottica, to sciencefiction
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    Designer economies: some tips and tricks to free your economic imagination and think up very different economic systems. Monastic economies, seasonal economies, commons-based peer production, war economies, Red Plenty... With some examples from and some bibliography.

    https://edgeryders.eu/t/designer-economies-how-much-freedom-do-we-really-have-when-imagining-believable-economic-systems/19279?u=alberto

    joostvb, to random
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    Dear Lazyweb, How make I stop mastodon in my firefox go beep once I receive a notification?
    I am running firefox-esr version 115.7.0esr-1~deb12u1 on Debian GNU/Linux 12
    (bookworm). I am on mastodon.green which runs github.com/mastodon/mastodon
    v4.2.7. I hate it when my computer decides to speak to me unless
    asked. I've searched under the hamburger menu, Settings, General to no avail.
    I guess I should type "about:config" in the address bar and search there?
    Thanks!

    alberto_cottica,
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    @joostvb mute tab?

    alberto_cottica,
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    @joostvb any time.

    alberto_cottica, to Economics
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    I have some new thoughts about , so I am going to dust off the blog and jolt them there. Let's start with a list of large, venerable institutions and their expression to call for radical reform: "just transitions", "extraordinary turnarounds", "system transformation", "systemic change", "structural transformation"...

    http://www.cottica.net/2024/03/09/stretching-the-overton-window-the-need-for-more-radical-reform-in-the-language-of-leading-institutions/

    alberto_cottica, to Belgium
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    "Back in Washington, the International Monetary Fund's delegation leaves in Belgium a 77 pages report, which will be added to the pile, without anyone losing their sleep over it". 🤣

    FMI ou le choc des cultures - Médor
    https://medor.coop/magazines/medor-n34-printemps-2024/fmi-ou-le-choc-des-cultures-economie-recommandations/

    simonvarwell, to random Esperanto
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    This is genuinely hilarious. UKGov commissions a report to demonstrate how awful Low-Traffic Neighbourhoods are. Report comes back praising them so report is buried.
    https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/mar/08/low-traffic-neighbourhoods-generally-popular-report-ordered-by-sunak-finds

    alberto_cottica,
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    @simonvarwell they have taken back control, as promised.

    alberto_cottica, to random
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    International Women's Day! ❤️
    I want to celebrate it with this video me and my then-bandmates made years ago honoured the all-female Coro delle Mondine di Novi (Rice Weeders of Novi Choir), our mothers, sisters, daughters, comrades and important friends. The choir grew out of rice farming work in Northern Italy. Italian, with English subtitles.

    https://youtu.be/INC5FszuIzU?feature=shared

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    Boeing has not been doing well for a while but now it seems wheels are really falling off. :blobcateyesblush:
    https://yewtu.be/watch?v=Iz-yv7QtNLU

    alberto_cottica,
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    @whvholst @rysiek Bayes's theorem for the win.

    pluralistic, to random
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    Hard to overstate how enshittified and botshitted Google Maps has become. Went looking for my local locksmith on Gmaps. Maps shows 20+ fake locksmith referral scam outlets and doesn't even register the real locksmith, despite it being fully visible in Street View.

    Instead, a red pin on the shop identifies it as a fake locksmith scammer. The real locksmith - which has been there SINCE 1942 (!!) and is a verified merchant - doesn't even show up.

    Google Maps, showing the storefront for Golden State Lock as an empty building.

    alberto_cottica,
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    @pluralistic and do we want to talk about fake medical centers in New York that ask for your credit card number on the phone? Also enabled by Maps.

    carrideen, to random
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    John Oliver did a great piece on the "pig butchering" complex of scams that you should watch. As Zeke Faux discovered in his research for the book Number Go Up, online romance/friendship scams, powered by enslaved human trafficking victims, are being used to inflate the cryptocurrency economy. The fewer people who fall for these scams, the less of a market there will be for forced labor and, incidentally, cryptocurrencies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLPpl2ISKTg

    alberto_cottica,
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    @carrideen "online romance scams, powered by human trafficking victims, used to inflate the cryptocurrency economy" was not on my 2024 bingo card.

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    This should be a viral national story in . After this team unanimously unionized, Google refused to come to the bargaining table.

    A resolution supporting the workers was brought to the city council. The day the workers showed up to testify on the resolution, Google laid off the entire team.

    This was the precise instant when YouTube Music employees became aware that we had lost our jobs, as we were addressing the City Council.

    video/mp4

    alberto_cottica,
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    @yogthos don't be evil, am I right?

    alberto_cottica, to sciencefiction
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    Today's community check-in with the Science Fiction Economics Lab was great, right mix of old friends and young guns. Looking forward to more of that tomorrow. https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUudeyrqDovEtfTSoXEpHOY61ByQeD0bHAx#/registration

    alberto_cottica, to sciencefiction
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    Heads up, folks. The Science Fiction Economics Lab rides again. Community check-in coming right up.

    https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMvceigpz0iHte52GeAuUVDrOEJHPisBYY2#/registration

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