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Neomajen zagovornik svobode, pisun, raziskovalec in soustanovitelj @LibertasISK. Magister filozofije, politologije in ekonomije. Ljubiteljski fotograf & šahist.
Mar 20, 2020 9 tweets 3 min read
Dragi dijakinji. Situacija je resna. Svetu se zdaj že skoraj gotovo obeta največja gospodarska kriza od druge svetovne vojne dalje. Vajino bodoče izobraževanje, kariera in standard življenja so v hudi nevarnosti. Počitnice in toplice so ta hip še najmanjša skrb. Odziva vama ne pišem, da bi vaju ali sodijake prestrašil. Verjamem in razumem tudi, da je izobraževalni proces trenutno v razsulu in da se vam zdi "nepošteno", da učitelji niso ne pripravljeni ne usklajeni pri podajanju vsebin preko spleta.
Nov 18, 2019 11 tweets 5 min read
Not sure what the question is (what counts as free and what as regulation?). But this reads like you’re setting up anarchy as the benchmark for “free market” (in which case anarchy too is a slippery term that needs defining). So some help 👇 Market orders are entangled with (and usually embedded in) political orders. Even when operating at the level of norms there is a political dimension to cooperation in groups. The bellow conveys the intuition of what precisely I mean.
Nov 16, 2019 18 tweets 5 min read
Pohvalno! Takšnega novinarstva bi si v Sloveniji želel več. Kalkulator je zdaj precej bolj uporaben za vse mogoče primerjave.
Naj torej prispevam nit 👇 1. Scenarij: SLO gospodarstvenike pogosto skrbi njihova konkurenčnost pri tem koliko lahko pritegnejo višjekvalificirano delovno silo srednjega in višjega razreda, ki lahko izbira tudi zaposlitev preko meje.
Nov 10, 2019 13 tweets 5 min read
Thread 👇
RCTs and the "economics as plumbing" paradigm have significant problems and limitations. The easy to convey points (that the randomistas would likely acknowledge themselves) go along these lines:
(paper: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…) The harder to convey points are of two types: 1. deep methodological disagreements (not merely about methods, but about the very nature of our science, the epistemology and ontology underpinning it), 2. political economy disagreements, including normative issues.
Aug 2, 2019 7 tweets 3 min read
"Krizni davki" radi postanejo stalnica.
(PS: ob drugi priložnosti lahko kakšno rečemo tudi o tem, kako so "krizni davki" tudi sicer ena najslabših idej soočanja s krizo) Slovenija, mimogrede, se po obdavčevanju potrošnje znajde nekako v zgornji tretjini EU. Primerjalno gledano imamo precej visoke davke na energente.