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Date: July 22nd, 2018 12:05 AM Author: Doobsian judgmental prole round eye 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. |
Date: July 22nd, 2018 12:06 AM Author: dark sweet tailpipe indian lodge Admit! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4032005&forum_id=2#36473446) |
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Date: July 22nd, 2018 5:41 PM Author: Wine flirting church haunted graveyard (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4032005&forum_id=2#36476453) |
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Date: July 22nd, 2018 12:09 AM Author: Self-centered toilet seat house Lmao (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4032005&forum_id=2#36473455) |
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Date: July 22nd, 2018 12:10 AM Author: hyperventilating curious kitty den I know right. Huh? What did he just say? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4032005&forum_id=2#36473465) |
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Date: July 22nd, 2018 12:15 AM Author: Self-centered toilet seat house He invented a fake scenario then suggests economics ought to thereby become radically shitlib because hey it's already inherently normative which means literally anything goes utopia tomorrow or violence. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4032005&forum_id=2#36473478) |
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Date: July 22nd, 2018 12:39 AM Author: crimson theatre queen of the night 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 |
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Date: July 22nd, 2018 12:41 AM Author: jet-lagged whorehouse factory reset button i took the LSAT 8 years ago but this gave me flashbacks of a long logical reasoning prompt. still not really sure what this was even about. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4032005&forum_id=2#36473555) |
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Date: July 22nd, 2018 10:38 AM Author: Doobsian judgmental prole round eye (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4032005&forum_id=2#36474248) |
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Date: July 22nd, 2018 2:48 PM Author: Doobsian judgmental prole round eye (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4032005&forum_id=2#36475496) |
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Date: July 22nd, 2018 2:55 PM Author: cordovan sickened forum LJL (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4032005&forum_id=2#36475535) |
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Date: July 22nd, 2018 4:04 PM Author: hairraiser trailer park hominid That's a ding even for a Cooley 250 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4032005&forum_id=2#36475890) |
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Date: July 22nd, 2018 4:07 PM Author: gay well-lubricated hell (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4032005&forum_id=2#36475898) |
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Date: July 22nd, 2018 5:26 PM Author: Doobsian judgmental prole round eye (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4032005&forum_id=2#36476356) |