PinnedOliver BeigeMilton Friedman and the surprising rationality of treesIn one of the most famous essays of 20th century economics, one of its most famous protagonist offers an astounding hypothesis on tree…6 min read·Dec 25, 2020----
Oliver BeigeFrom the cornfields in Iowa to Silicon Valley: A short history of the technology adoption curveIf you had Ames, Iowa on your bingo card for hotbeds of innovation research — Bingo. The technology adoption curve (aka the most important…4 min read·Apr 10, 2024--2--2
Oliver BeigeGenerative AI and combinatorial optimization, part 1: Why image generators can’t set up chess…Language and chess are two of the best-known domains for combinatorial reasoning, and they share the fundamental property of all…2 min read·Apr 3, 2024--1--1
Oliver BeigeThe attention-seeking rational actorIn which we establish an underlying model for human behavior and claim that all economies are just a variation of the attention economy.7 min read·Mar 17, 2024----
Oliver BeigeStocks, flows, transformations: the cybernetic economyAn Economic Pattern Language (@econpatterns for short) takes the economy and disassembles it into its constituent parts. But first, this…6 min read·Mar 7, 2024----
Oliver BeigeBullshit, Conjecture, Empirics: the three Levels of EvidenceA popular objection to planning I keep hearing, especially in the startup world, is “but we don’t have enough data”. Indeed, not having…7 min read·Sep 23, 2023----
Oliver BeigePutting the design in mechanism designEconomic design fields — auction design, market design, mechanism design — have become success stories for economics, especially for their…7 min read·Sep 9, 2023----
Oliver BeigeThe Dual Roots of Belief Propagation and Causal InferenceBelief propagation and causal inference are two intertwined concepts that have emerged from distinct fields of study: econometrics and…5 min read·Aug 23, 2023----
Oliver BeigeWhat I Do.Since I’m semi-frequently being asked about what my work entails, here is a short explainer of some of the major themes in my work put in…5 min read·Aug 10, 2023----
Oliver BeigeUnearthing the Truth: The “Criterion of Embarrassment” Beyond Biblical ScholarshipWhen examining historical or religious texts, the quest for truth can be akin to navigating a labyrinth. Among the many tools used by…3 min read·Jul 19, 2023--1--1