Writing
Essays and tutorials: network analysis in Python, text as data, and notes on the history of macroeconomic thought.
Production networks (economics)
In macroeconomics, the study of production networks is a recent approach of the literature that focuses on understanding the impact of the firm-to-firm production networks on aggregate quantities. The role of production networks in the…
Macroeconomics, Networks
Literary social network: Python tutorial
In this post, I create the social network of a book. The idea is to create a window of words and slide this window through the text. If two characters appear in the same window of text, a link is formed among these characters. Since I…
Networks, NLP, Python
The emotional arcs of stories: Python tutorial
I’ve chosen to analyze “The Tartar Steppe” by Dino Buzzati, which is my favorite novel. The main theme of the novel is the flee of time, and it is a recommended read for everyone who is struggling with a routine. The original text is in…
NLP, Python
Equilibrium and full employment in Friedman and Lucas
For centuries, the development of economic theories has been framed around the fundamental concept of equilibrium, i.e. a point in which the forces of the system equilibrate in such a way as to make it stable. In 1936, Keynes…
Macroeconomics
Keynesian economics: money wage flexibility and full employment
Keynesian economics is a general term which includes a variety of views and authors having as a common ground the theories advanced by Keynes in his masterpiece of 1936: “The General Theory of Employment, Interest & Money”. The…
Macroeconomics