Talk:Laurence Kotlikoff
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Apparent illogicality in section: 'Intergenerational altruism'
In the second paragraph we have:
"I.e., if you, Steve, are altruistic toward your daughter, Sue, ...'"
Later in the same paragraph we have:
"Furthermore, if Steve loses a dollar and you gain a dollar, Barro's model implies that you Steve ..."
In the second quote, how can "Steve lose[s] a dollar and you gain a dollar" if, according to the first quote, you are Steve.
Some name, somewhere, is wrong.
Somebody who knows more about this stuff please put us right. After all, the subject of this page is apparently important: he was cited recently in the Financial Times as possibly having the solution to the world's financial woes.
Cricobr (talk) 23:10, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
Advertisement / PR
This page is obviously being curated by persons contracted by the subject's business. Does anyone have ip listings for companies currently subverting wikipedia? 50.147.26.108 (talk) 05:37, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
- Major portions of this article have been written by the subject, are unsourced, and appear to be an advertisement for the subject's company. I propose that all content added by the subject which is written like an advertisment, unsourced, or otherwise inappropriate be removed. Does anyone have an issue with this?50.147.26.108 (talk) 05:48, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
- There use to be sources in this article. While I agree that the new information is unsourced and probably promotional, it doesn't appear to be inaccurate and probably if rewritten slightly and sourced, would benefit the article. I'd be great if we could fix it, rather than strip it. Actually, much of this is discussed in his publications already listed in the article. If we changed the section of "Publications" to "References" it probably source all that content. Certainly not the footnotes we would like, but it could cover it temporarily. Morphh (talk) 16:56, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
- The subject has written much of the article and is certainly using it for promotional purposes. My view is that the subject is violating the COI policy by excessively contributing self-promotional material into articles concerning himself and one of his prime research interests. His IP appears to edit these articles exclusively, so I think he needs to be warned. My 2 cents is to strip the content given the length of the article in comparison to scholars of similar eminence.50.147.26.108 (talk) 00:29, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
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