Showing posts with label Tyler Cowen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tyler Cowen. Show all posts
Monday, August 26, 2013

Health Care and Complexity

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Aaron Carroll : That said, if you want to have a discussion on the merits of making the American Health Care system look like Singapore’s,...
Friday, August 9, 2013

Owning a business in Russia can be tricky, it seems

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This story cited by Tyler Cowen really shows the problem of private or corruptible police: Most of the imprisoned are not there for any...
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Monday, December 31, 2012

Bad grading idea

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Via Tyler Cowen :  I will submit your papers (blind) to external referees as well as myself for assessment, an A grade will be limited to ...
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Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Prediction is difficult

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There is a really thoughtful post in the Economist. The gist: In a nutshell: I've become far less confident about our ability to ac...
Sunday, November 20, 2011

Statements that I violently disagree with

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From Tyler Cowen via Scott Sumner : Congratulations to Matt Yglesias on his new gig. He’s arguably the best progressive economist in the b...
Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Social Justice

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Tyler Cowen points out a great interview with the head of a major Slovakian political party on why Slovakia isn't necessarily thrilled...
Thursday, August 25, 2011

Medical Free Markets

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This is a very interesting post by Karl Smith : Lack of jobs is why everyone feels bad, not because they have less or are poorer or the c...
Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Tyler Cowen argues against more regulation with an example that calls for more regulation

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Tyler Cowen has a piece in the New York Times on how regulation inhibits innovation in transportation using the example of driverless ca...
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Monday, February 21, 2011

Environment is complex

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Via Tyler Cowen : A case in point is provided by the recent study of regular tobacco use among SATSA's twins (24). Heritability was est...
Monday, January 3, 2011

Incentives, the TSA, and a question for Tyler Cowen

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Tyler Cowen has a post up looking at a Washington Post article on airports considering private options to the TSA. The underlying assumptio...
Friday, July 23, 2010

A quick note on tenure and the economics of deferred compensation

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(Joseph may be through with this, but I'm just getting started.) One of the many weird things about the exceedingly weird tenure debat...
Saturday, May 8, 2010

Tyler Cowen has nerves of steel

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With no apparent sign of fear or hesitation, he links to the following WSJ article: Do Girls Speed More Than Boys? Survey Says Girls Drive ...