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My take on the Diversity Prediction Theorem is that it is a statement that in a regression model if you can find another exogenous variable that is not explained by the variables that you already have, and if the unexplained part is correlated with the dependent variable, then it pays to include the new exogenous variable.
Page-ing Robin Hanson, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Rather than dwell on his anecdotal lack of exposure to world SF, I was most disturbed by the following passage: The main protagonist of The Last Theorem is the Sri Lankan mathematician Ranjit Subramanian.
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His Final Variance Theorem is a very neat trick for solving the transform under specific circumstances without having to do anywhere near as much computation as normal.
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The proof that the Coase Theorem is false is actually quite simple: the assumptions of the Theorem contradict each other.
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The Coase Theorem is supposed to work under any other allocation of prior rights.
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What may or may not "exist within the mind" of a child with or without an idea of Pythagoras's Theorem is just that -- an idea.
A Response to a Response Hal Duncan 2007
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A different sort of breakdown of the Coase Theorem is when a site you might expect to be associated with a person or product leads you nowhere.
The Internet’s Greatest Coase Theorem Violation: Nissan.com - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2007
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The Coase Theorem is a somewhat rare species of beast: an economic theory that is both completely counterintuitive and yet often right in practice.
A Freakonomics Contest: The Coase Theorem Online - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2007
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A different sort of breakdown of the Coase Theorem is when a site you might expect to be associated with a person or product leads you nowhere.
The Internet’s Greatest Coase Theorem Violation: Nissan.com - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2007
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What may or may not "exist within the mind" of a child with or without an idea of Pythagoras's Theorem is just that -- an idea.
Archive 2007-04-01 Hal Duncan 2007
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