I’m an endowment manager in the US I have an undergraduate degree in Systems Engineering and an MA in Economics (after dropping from a PhD because it seem(s/ed) like a field of misused formalism.) I’ve read Debunking Economics and gone through a number of your slide decks. I’m in the midst of the Chartered Financial Analyst program, but am also still quite interested in further academic work and mostly in the direction you/this community is/are already going. Can you recommend anyone stateside, ideally near Washington DC or NY who might be a good point of contact as a potential adviser? Else, my suggested project would be to link the people in the broader community interested in this and create some sort of program for interested folks to complete a course of prerequisite study to be more technically able able to join the growing discussion something like What the CFA is for finance for the prerequisites and then ideally research publications following.
Your qualifications and interests are right up my alley, and as it happens I can recommend someone not too far away: Mike Radzicki at the Worcester Polytechnic just outside Boston. Mike is a past president of the Systems Dynamics Society and runs a PhD program applying systems dynamics to economics.
About a year and a half ago I started a an exchange with you about your model and the treatment of bank reserves, the fed, state variables, state constraints, Tronds papers, etc.
I entered the discussion around post #20 of the following thread:
Probably the blog will be the best place for this, because once we get sufficient funding I hope to be able to employ someone to maintain this site, leaving me freer for research and the blog.
I’m actually off to Norway to work with Trond on incorporating Central Bank and Treasury behavior into my pure credit economy model, so there will be developments on that front soon I hope. The sheer workload I get from the blog, media work, and the numerous other demands on my time mean that I spend precious little time doing what should be my main focus.
Good luck! I am extremely interested in the CB and Treasury updates to your model that come out of your collaboration with Trond. I was just re-reviewing your “Dynamics of the Monetary Circuit” paper and, per your suggestion, will probably add some further comments on your blog. Maybe some of the discussion that might be generated can assist you and Trond if you guys get a chance to look every so often while you work.
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August 30, 2011 at 10:48 pm
I’m an endowment manager in the US I have an undergraduate degree in Systems Engineering and an MA in Economics (after dropping from a PhD because it seem(s/ed) like a field of misused formalism.) I’ve read Debunking Economics and gone through a number of your slide decks. I’m in the midst of the Chartered Financial Analyst program, but am also still quite interested in further academic work and mostly in the direction you/this community is/are already going. Can you recommend anyone stateside, ideally near Washington DC or NY who might be a good point of contact as a potential adviser? Else, my suggested project would be to link the people in the broader community interested in this and create some sort of program for interested folks to complete a course of prerequisite study to be more technically able able to join the growing discussion something like What the CFA is for finance for the prerequisites and then ideally research publications following.
Cheers,
Tom English
August 30, 2011 at 10:54 pm
Hi Tom,
Your qualifications and interests are right up my alley, and as it happens I can recommend someone not too far away: Mike Radzicki at the Worcester Polytechnic just outside Boston. Mike is a past president of the Systems Dynamics Society and runs a PhD program applying systems dynamics to economics.
I’ll pop you more details by email shortly.
September 14, 2011 at 10:39 pm
Hi Steve,
About a year and a half ago I started a an exchange with you about your model and the treatment of bank reserves, the fed, state variables, state constraints, Tronds papers, etc.
I entered the discussion around post #20 of the following thread:
http://www.debtdeflation.com/blogs/?p=3052#comment-20664
I am curious if you and Trond have made any more progress in this regard?
I’m also curious as to what is the best mechanism to get re-engaged in your work:
1.) hang out here
2.) hangout at your debtwatch blog
Thanks!
Mike
September 14, 2011 at 11:09 pm
Hi Mike,
Probably the blog will be the best place for this, because once we get sufficient funding I hope to be able to employ someone to maintain this site, leaving me freer for research and the blog.
I’m actually off to Norway to work with Trond on incorporating Central Bank and Treasury behavior into my pure credit economy model, so there will be developments on that front soon I hope. The sheer workload I get from the blog, media work, and the numerous other demands on my time mean that I spend precious little time doing what should be my main focus.
September 14, 2011 at 11:28 pm
Good luck! I am extremely interested in the CB and Treasury updates to your model that come out of your collaboration with Trond. I was just re-reviewing your “Dynamics of the Monetary Circuit” paper and, per your suggestion, will probably add some further comments on your blog. Maybe some of the discussion that might be generated can assist you and Trond if you guys get a chance to look every so often while you work.
Mike