{"id":3543,"date":"2018-05-29T10:17:12","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T02:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/?p=3543"},"modified":"2018-05-29T10:21:19","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T02:21:19","slug":"akerlof-sins-of-omission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/?p=3543","title":{"rendered":"Akerlof: SINS OF OMISSION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SINS OF OMISSION George Akerlof INET Edinburgh: October 22, 2017<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.ineteconomics.org\/uploads\/downloads\/AKERLOF-Presentation.pdf<\/p>\n<p>This paper advances the general proposition that full coverage of the subject matter of economics requires a combination of two types of task: Hard and Soft. Rewards in publication and in promotion are accorded to Hard tasks; denied to Soft. These incentives have biased the practice of economics. Thus this essay is an application of the theory of multi-tasking, with agents dividing their effort between tasks, according to the respective rewards. It will give examples of resultant sins of omission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINS OF OMISSION George Akerlof INET Edinburgh: October 22, 2017 https:\/\/www.ineteconomics.org\/uploads\/downloads\/AKERLOF-Presentation.pdf This paper advances the general proposition that full coverage of the subject matter of economics requires a combination of two types of task: Hard and Soft. Rewards in publication and in promotion are accorded to Hard tasks; denied to Soft. These incentives have biased [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3543"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3545,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3543\/revisions\/3545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}