Richard Robb
Biographic Data
| ID | 4376317 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Robb |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Robb |
| SIGNATURE | ROBB R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Office of International Affairs |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
An Epistemology of the Financial Crisis
Imagine, as most economists do, that financial-market participants understand the basic structure of the world: While they cannot predict the future with certainty, they are endowed with knowledge of the possible outcomes of their actions and the probability that each of those outcomes will occur. Given these assumptions, if bankers, regulators, investors, and rating agencies were rational, we may conclude that the financial crisis was caused by …
Response to James Heckman's Comment
This is Robb's response to Comment on 'Nietzsche and the Economics of Becoming' (by Richard Robb) by James J. Heckman which can be found at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2209313
Nietzsche and the Economics of Becoming
Freud supposedly said that Nietzsche knew himself better than anyone who ever lived or is likely to live in the future. If the story is true, it's one of the best compliments of all time. Yet Nietzsche's psychological theories remain largely unknown to psychologists, philosophers andcertainly to economists. These theories, taken together, constitute a profound attack on the foundations of neoclassical models in which individuals maximize the disc…
Alternative methods for evaluating the impact of interventions
The problem and an overview of solutions to it This chapter considers the problem of estimating the impact of interventions in the presence of selection decisions by agents. For specificity we focus on the problem of estimating the impact of training on earnings when the enrollment of persons into training is the outcome of a selection process. The analysis of training presented here serves as a prototype for the analysis of the closely related p…
Drama in the Secondary School
An Epistemology of the Financial Crisis
Imagine, as most economists do, that financial-market participants understand the basic structure of the world: While they cannot predict the future with certainty, they are endowed with knowledge of the possible outcomes of their actions and the probability that each of those outcomes will occur. Given these assumptions, if bankers, regulators, investors, and rating agencies were rational, we may conclude that the financial crisis was caused by …
Drama in the Secondary School
Alternative methods for evaluating the impact of interventions
The problem and an overview of solutions to it This chapter considers the problem of estimating the impact of interventions in the presence of selection decisions by agents. For specificity we focus on the problem of estimating the impact of training on earnings when the enrollment of persons into training is the outcome of a selection process. The analysis of training presented here serves as a prototype for the analysis of the closely related p…
Response to James Heckman's Comment
This is Robb's response to Comment on 'Nietzsche and the Economics of Becoming' (by Richard Robb) by James J. Heckman which can be found at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2209313
Nietzsche and the Economics of Becoming
Freud supposedly said that Nietzsche knew himself better than anyone who ever lived or is likely to live in the future. If the story is true, it's one of the best compliments of all time. Yet Nietzsche's psychological theories remain largely unknown to psychologists, philosophers andcertainly to economists. These theories, taken together, constitute a profound attack on the foundations of neoclassical models in which individuals maximize the disc…
An Epistemology of the Financial Crisis
Imagine, as most economists do, that financial-market participants understand the basic structure of the world: While they cannot predict the future with certainty, they are endowed with knowledge of the possible outcomes of their actions and the probability that each of those outcomes will occur. Given these assumptions, if bankers, regulators, investors, and rating agencies were rational, we may conclude that the financial crisis was caused by …
Economics (4 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Financial Markets and Investment Strategies (2 works) · Positive economics (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Accounting (1 work) · Actuarial science (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Banking stability, regulation, efficiency (1 work)