And on the senses in which social kinds can be normative

Very interesting keynote by Muhammad Ali Khalidi on demarcation between natural and social kinds. At ENPOSS 2025 picturesque setting, Ca’ Foscari, Venice. #philsci

New article out! Honored to have worked on this with @annaalexandrova.bsky.social

So they are still celebrating!

PPE Society: London 2025 - The Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Society We are pleased to share that, in addition to the PPE Society’s Annual Meetings held each year in New Orleans, the international PPE Society will…

Registered and looking forward to sharing a session on inequality and value-laden social science with @markfabian.bsky.social @alessandrabasso.bsky.social and Moritz Horl. (Speaking of inequality, I am thankful to have an institution to reimburse the very high registration fee). Who else is going?

I’d read it more in term of purposes rather than of personal feelings/values

And continues

Angus Deaton on economists and philosophers discussing about inequality and justice, in Cambridge, 50 years ago

‘Economics in America’ #philsci

I found Craig Callender’s piece as the PSA President in this latest newsletter really moving. Very funny at the start and serious at the end

I’m preparing a lecture on social prediction with AI and couldn’t agree more with this. I’ll be using Douglas' excellent ‘Reintroducing Prediction to Explanation.’ Now curious to hear what others are working on in this space. #philsci

Can’t wait to read this!

“Why do we use eighty-year-old metrics to understand today’s economy?

Coyle explains why economic statistics matter. … Only with a new approach to measurement will we be able to achieve the right kind of growth for the benefit of all.”

#Philsci

Production isn't just a matter of market coordination - financial institutions like banks and stock markets regulate it via credit and monetary policy. Mason argues we should insert public criteria into private financing, democratizing their regulating functions.

Lifetime Socioeconomic Status, Cognitive Decline, and Brain Characteristics This cohort study examines associations of socioeconomic status across the lifespan with cognitive decline and brain characteristics in Black and White individuals in Chicago, Illinois.

More #evidence on how #Poverty destroys people's #health and #lives... We could make the world a better place for everyone, if we wanted... #MedSky 🧪 #PoliSky #EconSky #sociology

A graph that shows the cross-rate effects of a progressive tax reform on own tax compliance. Tax progressivity is a cornerstone of government redistribution efforts worldwide. Yet, despite its widespread use, much remains unknown about how individuals respond – not just in their stated preferences, but also in their actual behaviour. This column examines the real-world impacts of a progressive tax reform in Argentina and finds causal evidence that the reform had significant effects on tax compliance. The authors explore the broader implications for understanding taxpayer preferences and improving the design of tax reforms.

Evidence from a progressive #tax reform in #Argentina shows that the reform had significant effects on tax compliance and that the effects depend on how households perceive the broader tax system.
N Ajzenman, G Cruces, R Perez-Truglia, D Tortarolo, G Vazquez-Bare
cepr.org/voxeu/column...
#EconSky

A photo of a book: Diffusion of Innovation by Everett M Rogers. The cover is black with white writing. In the middle is an illustration of five pointed leaves on a colour spectrum from green, to yellow, to autumnal red.

I’m reading this on diffusion and it’s quite a useful way to think about public sector digital work.

You can think about internet-era methods as an innovation (for example, the idea of organizing work into outcome-based product teams). 1/n

Paper and symposium proposals are now being accepted for the 2024 Inaugural Conference of the Society for the Study of Measurement at UC Berkeley, August 5–6, 2024. Submit by April 1st! #philsci #histsci #PsychSciSky 🧪 measurementsociety.org/conference/

Such a rich and stimulating lecture; there’s everything really, a model, its predictions, a complex causal structure, limited evidence, and a hint of what can be done in practice. Highly recommended!

🗓TODAY! 6.3.2024, 15:00 (EET)
Dani Rodrik: "Industrial Policies: The Old and the New"
ℹ️🔗 reses-argumenta.fi?p=1049
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#econsky @drodrik.bsky.social

economy2030.resolutionfoundation.org

UK is more unequal than centralEU countries not because UK rich are richer, but bc the mid and bottom of the distribution are poorer. If benefits keep shrinking while return on investment stay high, ineq surges. Thwaites on Ending Stagnation for how to fix this (spoiler, not by tax) #ineq #philsci

For 38% of Apple shareholders it’s time to openly discuss the ethical guidelines on AI #philsci

Franz Dietrich & Christian List, The impossibility of non-manipulable probability aggregation - PhilPapers A probability aggregation rule assigns to each profile of probability functions across a group of individuals (representing their individual probability assignments to some propositions) a collective ...

New paper: Any probability aggregation rule (method for merging individual probability judgments, e.g. in a committee or expert panel, into coherent collective ones) can satisfy at most two of (1) consensus preservation, (2) non-dictatorship, and (3) non-manipulability (immunity to strategy voting).

In the next Perspectives on Science seminar on 12.2., Maria Jimenez-Buedo (UNED) will give a talk entitled “Explanation and generality in Analytical Sociology." Joint work w/ Saúl Pérez-González (Valencia). More details at tint-helsinki.fi #philsci

We must ask the important questions: What are we hoping to learn from these replications? Is a replication the best design to achieve what we want to learn? Is this experiment replication-ready? We discuss these points here.
philsci-archive.pitt.edu/21475/

#philsci #histsci
A substantial revision to “Scientific Progress” was published today by Ilkka Niiniluoto. Very interesting review.

Classic ISOTYPE graphic designed by Otto Neurath and collaborators to make statistical information more widely available

Expected early March! Science and the Public, in the Elements in Philosophy of Science series. Scientific understanding, scientific trust, the Vienna Circle, and strong claims about what science owes society... what's not to like?
www.cambridge.org/core/element... #philsky #philsci

Scientific Models and Decision Making Cambridge Core - Philosophy of Science - Scientific Models and Decision Making

Looking forward to reading this. Winsberg and Harvard are such a great team on the subject of value judgments in models used to justify action. #philsci #scipol

Official publication day of Avner de-Shalit and my City of Equals.

Please check your money/sense ratio before ordering, though as it’s also available free, as a legal open access download.

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Can’t resist noticing that even in utopian Egalitaria, women get less because they spend time caring for children. Apparently 50 years ago this didn’t sound like an injustice.