Daniel B. Klein

Daniel Bruce Klein (born January 16, 1962) is an American professor of economics at George Mason University and an Associate Fellow of the Swedish Ratio Institute. Much of his research examines public policy questions, libertarian political philosophy, and the sociology of academia. He is the chief editor of Econ Journal Watch.

Daniel B. Klein
Born (1962-01-16) January 16, 1962
NationalityAmerican
InstitutionGeorge Mason University
Alma materNew York University

Klein received his doctorate in economics from New York University in 1990. He was a Visiting Scholar at the City University in Stockholm and the Department of Economics, Stanford University.[1]

Debates

In an article appearing in the August 2004 Econ Journal Watch he criticized libertarian paternalism, espoused by Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler, as oxymoronic.[2] He argued against what he perceived as an overly loose and weak definition of libertarianism on the grounds that Thaler and Sunstein made no meaningful distinction between liberty and coercion. In failing to define the concepts of liberty and coercion as fundamentally dissimilar processes. Libertarian paternalism uses a hyperrational behavior model of human nature as a definition for libertarianism, and neglects alternative definitions such as those advanced by Adam Smith and F.A. Hayek.

Selected publications

Notes
  1. "FDAReview.org". Archived from the original on 2015-11-30. Retrieved 2012-11-30.
  2. http://www.econjournalwatch.org/pdf/KleinCommentAugust2004.pdf
gollark: There was XLNet. Not sure what happened with that.
gollark: There are variations which improve this, but apparently they aren't suitable for text generation somehow.
gollark: The issue is that the required memory/compute scales *quadratically* with sequence length with transformers.
gollark: Probably this will improve when/if they make a GPT-4 with even more parameters and ideally some way to get around the context length limit.
gollark: I think it's kind of neat but also not hugely useful, inasmuch as it:- generates somewhat bad code, and without awareness of your preferred style and architecture- may not actually be faster than just writing the code yourself, since you have to specify things fairly precisely and filter its output for it to be any good
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