Admit, waitlist or deny this Yale 250?
| red garrison | 07/22/18 | | offensive rigor fat ankles | 07/22/18 | | Cyan Swashbuckling Parlor | 07/22/18 | | Light theater boiling water | 07/22/18 | | stirring school circlehead | 07/22/18 | | Light theater boiling water | 07/22/18 | | Passionate Windowlicker Tattoo | 07/22/18 | | grizzly electric furnace state | 07/22/18 | | red garrison | 07/22/18 | | red garrison | 07/22/18 | | Bateful house ratface | 07/22/18 | | cordovan codepig yarmulke | 07/22/18 | | Excitant coral ceo famous landscape painting | 07/22/18 | | red garrison | 07/22/18 |
Poast new message in this thread
Date: July 22nd, 2018 12:05 AM Author: red garrison
It can be easy to mistake positive economics for a science without values. Its language is mathematics and a formula does not declare if the phenomena it describes is good or bad. However, there is a difference between describing rates of spending or economic growth and attempting to quantify something like human development which is composed of more than just strict economic factors.
On its face, the Human Development Index (HDI) is, like the Gini Index or Consumer Price Index, a silent formula, but closer inspection reveals that value judgements can be written in the language of mathematics.
A country’s HDI is found by taking the geometric mean of three scaled indicators: income per capita, life expectancy, and education. The HDI’s method of aggregating these indicators allows improvements in one indicator to compensate for a decline in another. This substitutability implies that a reduction in life expectancy can be justified by economic growth and also allows the monetary value of human life to be calculated. Doing this calculation makes the troubling suggestion that human life is worth less in poorer countries.
All of this is implicit in the formula’s construction.
Yet, this is not necessarily a flaw in economics or the math that underlies its concepts. In fact, the ability to express a value judgement in a formula is a powerful tool. However, in order to use it responsibly, implicit judgments must be made explicit lest the formula be allowed to dictate our values rather than the other way around.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4032005&forum_id=2#36473443) |
Date: July 22nd, 2018 12:39 AM Author: Passionate Windowlicker Tattoo
not only should is this an obvious deny, this fag's econ degree should be revoked
nobody is making policy decisions around this retarded index
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4032005&forum_id=2#36473547) |
|
|