Fascinating to me that coffee--how you prepare it and where you buy--it has become such an important source of virtue signaling about one's values and sophistication. Beer, too, to some extent, and wine, of course, in the past. But the variations for home prep makes coffee, king.
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Studying virtue signaling could only become an econ subfield if it could be done with sophisticated mathematical or statistical tools, else publishing in the field wouldn't help an economist's career.
Fortunately, economics shows you can study anything with sophisticated mathematical tools.
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And lots of decimal points.
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I feel like there's another, sort of opposite tendency, to virtue signalling... could be called curmudgeon signalling. People who are stuck in their ways, unimaginative, low-openness, and dare I say who have poor/lack of taste tend to curmudgeon signal.
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We can make data say pretty much anything we want.
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No, you can't. Math *rules out* a lot of people's intuitive beliefs about economics!
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I haven't seen "virtue signaling" rigorously defined, but most of the explanations I've seen make no sense if you try to work out the details with game theory.
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