Masochistic Fun with Plutocratic Murder

dc.contributor.authorFix, Blair
dc.date.accessioned2023-05-28T01:29:48Z
dc.date.available2023-05-28T01:29:48Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractThere’s nothing like waking up to a boatload of Twitter scorn. It’s refreshing, in a masochistic sort of way. Some backstory. After most of my blog posts, I put the charts on Twitter, usually with a provocative caption. (It’s more fun that way.) So after last week’s review of Cory Doctorow’s book Red Team Blues, I tweeted the relation between income inequality and the rate of murder. The next morning my Twitter feed was … interesting. The tweet apparently went viral, helped along by a nice little insult from Nassim Nicholas Taleb: 'No. The statement by that fettuccinibrain is contradicted by his own graph. #fooledbyrandomness'. Apart from him calling me a fettuccini brain, I have a lot of respect for Taleb, who’s famous for (among other things) his excellent book Fooled By Randomness. It’s an engaging romp through the many ways that human’s get duped by random patterns. Back to the tweet. Taleb is implying that the relation between inequality and murder is essentially a random blob of data, and that I’m a fool to plot a trend line through it. I disagree.en_US
dc.identifier.citationMasochistic Fun with Plutocratic Murder. Fix, Blair. (2023). Economics from the Top Down. 20 May. pp. 1-17. (Article - Magazine; English).en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/41172
dc.language.isoenen_US
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dc.subjectcrimeen_US
dc.subjectincome distributionen_US
dc.subjectinequalityen_US
dc.subjectmethodologyen_US
dc.subjectmurderen_US
dc.titleMasochistic Fun with Plutocratic Murderen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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