Jack Meyer 🏛️
@Jackbmeyer
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Economist. Researching Institutions, Intellectual Property, Innovation, and Inequality. MPhil Student, on leave from @OxfordEconDept, MSc @LseEcHist (RT!=E)
Vermont/Oxford
Joined March 2015
I've been thinking about artificial intelligence and the job market a lot recently, so I wrote a piece on what I see as the most immediate economic threat posed by generative AI (and it's not automation).
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My philosophical evolution in 3 steps: 1) Liberal 2) Liberal Socialist (Rawlsian) 3) Social Liberal (Kantian)
1) (Un)Orthodox Roman Catholic 2) Nietzsche/Camus Existentialist 3) Kantian 4) Kierkegaardian/Heideggerian existentialist 5) Vitalist/Critical Legal Theory 6) Critical Theorist 7) Liberal Socialism
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“the rational agent consumption smooths” I remark while living large on a grad stipend
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Four books I read over the last year that I recommend:
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GDP growth outside of AI investment might be stalling but that’s alright, with the last round of shutdown cuts store shelves are fully stocked and if the trend keeps up we might start seeing prices drop across the board…
Trump on affordability: It’s a con job. Costs are way down.
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One of the functions of education is to prevent people from embarrassing themselves, but that actually takes a lot more work on the part of the student than many people are willing to do.
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The price-earnings ratio of the stock market has only once been higher than it is today (at the top of the internet bubble). Heady times. [Source: Robert Shiller]
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Side note, if you're trying to demonstrate a form of argument is unserious, don't do this:
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I like when other fields have their own version of the endless heterodox vs orthodox debate. Maybe economics and philosophy aren't so different after all
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A recurrent “inverted U curve” in economics can be understood as a secular formalization of ethics derived from Aristotle: that peak moral virtue consists of a stable disposition of character between the vicious excesses and deficiencies that define the outer bounds of moral life
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He solved his utility maximization problem subject to budget constraint.
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"You can't redistrict the senate" Oh yeah? then explain this:
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I put together a short follow-up to my last post, including a brief summary and a few interesting papers on AI, employment and productivity
I've been thinking about artificial intelligence and the job market a lot recently, so I wrote a piece on what I see as the most immediate economic threat posed by generative AI (and it's not automation).
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Worth remarking on the distinction between Political Economy: the subfield applying economic methods to political decision making and Classical Political Economy: the school of economic thought derived from moral philosophy
Political economy is not a subfield of economics. Political economy is a subfield of political science which happens to be useful for studying economic problems
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