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...Volcanic Ash Allowing,” I’m not sure what Pierpaolo Barbieri has in mind when he calls for “fully determined models delivering certainty.” Perhaps he is referring to the models peddled by certain misguided financiers. But to suggest that the entire profession of economics engages in an extreme kind of wishful thinking, or worse, deception, is grossly unfair and misleading. Cobb-Douglas will not predict economic growth in the way that Newton’s Laws describe motion, but it generates crucial insights into economic phenomena and is a powerful...
...their ability to rationalize and often rightly predict the behavior of more complex real systems. Confused applications of the uncertainty principle notwithstanding, the author’s disdain for the “data-heavy, model-driven graduate student” is unjustified. Perhaps in his next piece, Mr. Barbieri can suggest an alternative to restrictive modeling in understanding and predicting phenomena...
...imperfectly informed as the experts at the Volcanic Ash Advisory Center might be, their judgments on the basis of data and computer simulation are presumably more useful than the alternative: the intuitions of the CEO of Air-or-Bust, or perhaps, Mr. Barbieri, on when it’s safe...
Pierpaolo Barbieri ’09, a former Crimson associate editorial chair, is now Lt. Charles Henry Fiske III Harvard-Cambridge scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge...
...Crimson should make an effort to change the inherently American focus of its staff. Where foreign students have joined the Crimson, they have often enriched it immensely: “Foreign Intelligence,” Pierpaolo Barbieri ‘09’s reasoned and enlightened column, substantially enhanced the editorial page during its run. Barbieri drew our attention to regions of the world usually ignored by headline news and shied away from superficial, poorly informed analysis of the kind that followed the Mumbai attacks...