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- Code for The Economist's election model for 2020 https://github.com/TheEconomist/us-potus-model 154 comments
- Code and data for The Economist's Big Mac index https://github.com/TheEconomist/big-mac-data 27 comments
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- Coding for Economists https://aeturrell.github.io/coding-for-economists/intro.html 3 comments book , python
- Roger Ver on Twitter: "Developers may know how to code, but they are not economists, nor are they business owners that rely on Bitcoin for payments." https://twitter.com/rogerkver/status/856180915512332288 112 comments btc
- Flight Delayed After Economist's Math Equation Mistaken For 'Terrorist Code' http://m.ndtv.com/world-news/flight-delayed-after-economists-math-equation-mistaken-for-terrorist-code-1404050?pfrom=home-topstories 4 comments worldnews
- What is code? (According to the Economist) http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2015/09/economist-explains-3 140 comments programming
- Majority Of Economists Oppose Automatic Cuts, Support Tax Code Reform http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/04/economists-automatic-spending-cuts-nabe-report_n_2804990.html?utm_hp_ref=business 13 comments politics
- How 24 Economists Debunk Myth of “Uncompetitive” Corporate Tax Code http://ourfuture.org/20151006/how-24-economists-debunk-myth-of-uncompetitive-corporate-tax-code 3 comments politics
- How to Stop Tax Inversions With a Carbon Levy. Seriously. Two environmental economists propose that federal income from a carbon tax could help reboot the U.S. corporate tax code. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-08-12/appalled-by-inversions-a-carbon-levy-may-keep-companies-from-fleeing-u-s-taxes.html 6 comments politics
- We at The Economist have produced a web page that uses statistical techniques from machine learning and publicly available satellite data on temperature anomalies to detect war events in Ukraine. We are proud to contribute as part of the IT Army of Ukraine. Here's our source code! https://github.com/TheEconomist/the-economist-war-fire-model 33 comments programming
- Perils of our profession: Dark-skinned economist profiled for making notes in "strange code" while on airplane https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/rampage/wp/2016/05/07/ivy-league-economist-interrogated-for-doing-math-on-american-airlines-flight/ 3 comments economy
- "Economists found passers-by often donated more when paying via a digital platforms like apps, QR codes, PayPal and even Bitcoin, compared to the centuries' old payment method of loose coins" https://phys.org/news/2021-07-cash-credit-key-survival-busking.html 5 comments btc
- Pinochet 2.0: US Chicago-trained economist Paul Romer talks Honduras' military dictator into establishing a private city owned and regulated by offshore corporations. The city will have all its laws - labor laws, environmental laws, criminal codes, civil codes - set by a private corporation. http://boingboing.net/2012/09/24/pinochet-2-0-us-economist-tal.html 9 comments politics