Ben Vincent, DPhil
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Ben Vincent, DPhil
@benvincent.bsky.social
Data Scientist | Bayes | Causal reasoning | Python + Julia | Ex-academic | #MMT
drbenvincent.github.io
You may be interested in CausalPy, a package focused on so three major quasi experimental methods. Feature requests, bug reports welcome.

causalpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
CausalPy - causal inference for quasi-experiments — CausalPy 0.6.0 documentation
causalpy.readthedocs.io
November 27, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Enough with the mental retardation. All this balancing the books nonsense is based on a stupid “government as a household” analogy. It doesn’t work like that - we have a fiat currency which the government is in charge of issuing. We’re not in a gold standard any more.
November 13, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Nice. Would also be interesting to see by country, given the generation mix. E.g. in the UK we’ve got a decent amount of annual generation from wind and solar which aren’t shown on that infographic.
November 10, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Well, the MMT’ers would point out that taxes don’t fund spending. The govt issues the currency, so you _could_ reduce energy bills and still fund things as you were before.
November 5, 2025 at 10:57 AM
I’m not 100% sure, but I think he’s spoken on this before, saying that rejoining doesn’t necessarily require giving up the £
October 23, 2025 at 11:59 AM
The government issues sterling. It’s not a problem.
October 15, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Realizing the Great Transition
YouTube video by DNV - Energy Systems
youtu.be
October 12, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Do you have anything written on your stance on MMT?
September 19, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I recommend Understanding Psychology as a Science: An Introduction to Scientific and Statistical Inference.

www.bloomsbury.com/uk/understan...
Understanding Psychology as a Science
How can we objectively define categories of truth in scientific thinking? How can we reliably measure the results of research? In this ground-breaking text, Die…
www.bloomsbury.com
August 26, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Off topic, but very interesting 👍🏻 Is there a layperson-friendly summary or short book about the corrected story/history?
August 19, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Getting the tax/spend direction of causality wrong probably feels embarrassing. But that’s is what sets apart scientists and enquiring minds from people with a rigid belief system.
August 18, 2025 at 11:22 AM