Information Transfer Economics

A working paper exploring the idea that information equilibrium is a general principle for understanding economics. [Here] is an overview.

Sunday, May 14, 2023

Link to my post: Ad hominem, for lack of a better word, is good

 


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Monday, May 1, 2023

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Information equilibrium (draft papers/talks)

  • Collected presentations & papers
  • Outside the Box Workshop (UW Econ Dept, 2018)
  • Maximum entropy and information theory approaches to economics (2018)
  • A tour of information equilibrium (2017)
  • Information equilibrium as an economic principle (2015)
  • Maximum entropy and information theory approaches to economics (7th BPE conference 2016)
  • Dynamic information equilibrium (2017)
  • Ensembles and macroeconomics (2017)
  • Forecasting with information equilibrium (2017)
  • Utility maximization and entropy maximization (2015)
  • General information transfer model for physical systems (Fielitz and Borchardt paper, 2009)

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  • Standard economics from information equilibrium
  • Information equilibrium as a framework
  • The economic state space
  • Economics as information theory
  • How money transfers information

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