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Monthly Archives: April 2015
Reading David Brooks on Character
After downloading his new book, The Road to Character, I started by skipping to his concluding chapter, where he writes, The things we call character endure over the long term–courage, honesty, humility. People with character are capable of a long … Continue reading
Posted in books and book reviews, David Brooks
3 Comments
Real Interest Rates and Secular Trends
Commenter Handle writes, There’s nothing an entrepreneurial employer can buy to augment his workers to increase their labor productivity. They’re no equipment or anything for him to invest in. There’s no point: labor productivity in NCH sectors cannot be increased. … Continue reading
Posted in Four Forces Watch
19 Comments
What’s Wrong with Keynesian Economics?
It looks like I will be contributing to a set of essays on this topic. Here is what I am thinking of in terms of an outline. 1. What is Keynesian economics? I think that there are two important versions. … Continue reading
Posted in PSST and Macro
7 Comments
The Middle Man as Information Processor
Suppose that I am one of three boys at a summer camp. Each of us receives an identical care package, consisting of two bags of pretzels and two boxes of apple juice. I like pretzels and apple juice, but boy … Continue reading
Posted in Teaching Emergent Economics
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The Central Principle of Economics
Trade is almost always good. I want to propose that as the central principle of economics. More on that in other posts. In this post, I want to talk about how trade might be bad or might be perceived to … Continue reading
Posted in Teaching Emergent Economics
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Hayek and Business Management
Chris Dillow writes, If extensive knowledge is possible, then bosses might be able to manage big companies well. If not, then centrally planned companies will be inefficient. Sure, perhaps competition will eventually weed out egregious incompetence, but market forces might … Continue reading
Joseph Heath on the Roots of Conservatism
He writes, There is of course a much-observed tension between the cultural-evolutionary and the free-market versions of conservatism, particularly since the untrammelled free market is the most effective device for destroying traditional institutions that has ever been devised by man. … Continue reading
Posted in David Brooks, Three-Axes Model
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Yuval Levin on the Roots of Conservatism
He writes, Conservatives tend to see the human person as an incorrigible mass of contradictions: a fallen and imperfect being created in a divine image, a creature possessed of fundamental dignity and inalienable rights but prone to excess and to … Continue reading
Posted in Three-Axes Model
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Interpreting Roland Fryer
He is the latest winner of the John Bates Clark Medal. The announcement reads, in part Roland Fryer in a series of highly-influential studies has examined the age profile and sources of the U.S. racial achievement gap as measured by … Continue reading
Posted in Economics of Education, statistical methods
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Throw Peer Review Under the Bus?
From The Independent Richard Smith, who edited the British Medical Journal for more than a decade, said there was no evidence that peer review was a good method of detecting errors and claimed that “most of what is published in … Continue reading