integrity
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July 19th, 2024
- something I want to write/draft... #blogpost integrity choice commitment acceptance isn't the same as acceptance
- acceptance plays very complexly with choice, commitment, and integrity
- both past choice and present choice
- provisionally, it seems to me that insofar as a commitment isn't made freely, then if it takes will to maintain and there's a real possibility of exiting it, it will
- the central example of all of this is marriage
- arranged marriage never had the illusion that you were supposed to choose in the first place. you could influence it a bit but the commitment was barely even something YOU were doing
- and if you hated your experience of being married to this person, well, too bad, many people do, and you live with it
- chosen marriage in a context where divorce is impossible except abuse...
- has
- contrast this with the very different kind of commitment that it is to have kids with someone
March 14th, 2021
- I have a hunch that this article by Werner Erhard & Michael C. Jensen about integrity and expectations is very very relevant to the NNTD, and that in fact the descriptive nature of it may make it actually the closest rigorous thing to the NNTD in a particular direction.
- > We summarize our new positive theory of integrity that has no normative content, (positive as used here is from the discipline of economics – it does not mean something good or desirable, it means the way the world actually is and operates) and argue that there are large gains from putting integrity into finance – into both the theory and practice of finance. We define integrity as being whole and complete and unbroken. We argue that if finance scholars, teachers and practitioners take this approach to applications in finance there are huge gains to be achieved.