Dean's dough

Half-baked thoughts on money, finance, and economics.

Saturday, March 25, 2023

Swiss coco

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Financial and economic wealth are largely a function of expectations. A factory is valuable because I expect that it will help produce som...
Friday, August 26, 2022

Tiebout sorting and local governance

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I'm a fan of Tiebout sorting and institutional diversity in general; I would like for people moving to an area to have a practical choic...
Sunday, April 3, 2022

price controls and rationing

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 There's been inflation, and there have been calls for price controls, and so I've been reading a bit about price controls in histor...
Tuesday, August 31, 2021

Reg NMS

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There is renewed discussion of the possibility of banning payment for order flow in the United States, and the proposed ban appears to be ad...
Wednesday, August 18, 2021

bounded cognition in evolutionary game theory

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Suppose you have a set of agents that, for behavioral and strategic reasons, all "cooperate" with each other, but would recognize ...
Monday, June 14, 2021

free will

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 At some point I intend to read some philosophical works on free will and determinism, but I want to record a thought I have that may be uno...
Sunday, March 7, 2021

rationing

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My previous post mentioned power shortages in Texas; to some extent generally, but especially when there are power shortages, retail allocat...
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My name is Dean Jens. I was born and raised in Iowa, though not consecutively. I have degrees in math, physics, and economics, and worked as a computer programmer and pricing credit derivatives. I have been heavily involved in Sacred Harp singing and contradancing, and have run two marathons. I am married (since 2010) and a father (since 2011).
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