Peter Lorentzen
@peterlorentzen
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Economist/political scientist studying information, institutions, incentives, and China. Prominent thought follower. @USF_Economics @usfca. 纸上谈兵
San Francisco, California
Joined April 2009
Latest podcast: Former Silicon Valley Bank CEO Ken Wilcox on his firm's misadventures in China. Remarkable how much the story resembles those told by manufacturing joint ventures in the 1990s.
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@RazzberryYams if you’re saying that a dumb law resulted from practical political compromises, that’s informative, but it is still a dumb law.
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@GarrettPetersen makes sense. And yes, I agree. The classic games were designed for people with no TV, let alone Internet. I’m always struck with most modern board games how they’re designed to accelerate and wrap up so quickly.
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@GarrettPetersen now, if it were a software as a service then maybe you’d want to focus on the 2% of players who will play 1000 times but that’s not the board game business model, thank god.
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@odinsbadeye @memeticsisyphus If inefficiency is fraud then I should sue my grocer store. They sold me an orange yesterday and said it cost a dollar but actually $.90 of that dollar went for baggers and managers and marketing and rent and shipping.
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@AlanLevinovitz This makes some sense to me but wouldn’t that same logic say that a law or financial firm could choose to hire only tall white men if their client base found it easier to respect and trust people like that?
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Sounds a lot like how things go when we try to have a policy discussion in San Francisco. Any disagreement can be shut down if one side can successfully be tarred as “Republican.”
In Newton, MA, a few moms, all Democrats, began questioning school policy that abandoned honors-track classes. They were painted as right-wing racists opposing “equity”. Now, local teachers are pushing back on the same detracking experiment, saying it didn’t work for anyone. Whew, this story. So many themes remind me of my experiences advocating for school reopening with a bunch of mostly-Democrat moms in blue regions.
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@JohnWittle @devahaz @Noahpinion as they say, if it’s too dumb to be true, it probably is. (unless it involves a Kennedy)
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RT @marcorubio: Foreign Aid is not charity. We must make sure it is well spent, but it is less than 1% of budget & critical to our national…
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@lymanstoneky He says the vast majority of these studies have an end line of 8-12 weeks. Seems pretty short if someone has developed significantly distorted thought patterns over months or years.
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@razibkhan @jasminewsun @ArmandDoma It has always been fueled by a mix of lefty hippy eccentrics (Jobs and Wozniak) and the military-industrial complex.
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RT @dilanesper: The alternative to standardized testing is not some Utopia where selective colleges seek out and find the smart, disadvanta…
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RT @mkwitzke: In 2014, I arrived in Shenzhen with 150 other teachers, all eager to explore China and learn Chinese. Over a decade later, on…
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RT @paulnovosad: Test scores on applications promote social mobility, because elite institutions interpret test scores in the context of ba…
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