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Dietrich Vollrath
Personal blog · growthecon.com/blogeconomics
Dietrich Vollrath's personal blog at growthecon.com covers economics. Since 2016, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
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Why HN links it
Linked for economics analysis by Dietrich Vollrath, here on heat pump adoption costs and how GDP and productivity capture computer prices. Comments discuss upfront cost barriers and inflation.
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University of Houston
What Hacker News says?
The first point is very valid too. There was an energy commission study a few years ago, and up front cost is pretty consistently one of the biggest barriers to heat pump adoption. I think there's some nuance to that, though. Even replacing a furnace + AC in California amounts to tens of thousands of dollars! It's not that heat pumps are expensive, it's that construction work in general is expensive. When you frame…
Comment linking /feed/2017/05/15/What-You-Spend.html
on “Harnessing America's heat pump moment”Submitted Is productivity the victim of its own success? as a story · 78 points
HN discussionYou are completely wrong here: "In GDP / Labor Productivity terms, though, it's value hasn't changed at all -- in fact, it's DECREASED, since your new computer costs less than the old computer!" At least in the USA, the government does adjust for the increasing power of computers. Indeed, that is one of the arguments that productivity is really lower than what the government says (and therefore inflation is higher).…
Comment linking /blog/Manufacturing/
on “People's underestimation of AI”Submitted Who are you calling Malthusian? as a story · 49 points
HN discussionSubmitted Aggregate Productivity versus Aggregate Technology as a story · 1 points
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