Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Half the ranting I'd do if I were feeling better

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Menzie Chinn points out a great Business Week article on the nickel-and-diming of the Census Bureau. It's an incredibly short-sighted ...
Tuesday, May 8, 2012

"How venture capital is broken"

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Felix Salmon has a long but very pithy post on a new report from the Kauffman Foundation on the state of venture capital. It's a fasci...
Sunday, May 6, 2012

This is the second Justin Fox post I've looked at in the past few days

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and the second I've felt the need to pass on. There may be a pattern forming (via Krugman). Don't Like the Message? Maybe It'...

Back on the subject of agricultural research

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I'll be coming back to this. From the Financial Times [Cary] Fowler reminds me that losing varieties of crops means losing genes tha...
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Saturday, May 5, 2012

DVR Alert

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Sherlock returns this Sunday.

More on mergers and the growth fetish

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As a follow-up to this post (which was part of a larger thread ), this NBER paper (courtesy, I believe, of Felix Salmon or Brad DeLong) su...
Friday, May 4, 2012

The issue with targeted metrics

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Felix Salmon talks about the Employment Participation Rate : The number the politicians look at, however, is the unemployment rate, whic...

"Because he could do all these things, he imagined that he did do them."

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Now that I think about it, I'm surprised that Pauline Kael's " Raising Kane " hasn't come up before while we were disc...

A truly remarkable piece of misreading

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To some degree we've all been guilty of hearing what we expected to hear rather than what was said. At the risk of belaboring the obviou...
Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Outcome assessment

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This idea from Dean Dad is only going to work with an extremely objective metric.  It works fine for sales or time in a race, but I think th...
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Tuesday, May 1, 2012

A perspective on Ayn Rand

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From XKCD : I had a hard time with Ayn Rand because I found myself enthusiastically agreeing with the first 90% of every sentence, but get...

Context

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Context can really matter in terms of what we consider to be virtuous behavior: So there it is: the difference between a stay-home mother ...
Sunday, April 29, 2012

Sure it saved us twenty billion, but it sounds funny

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I was very pleased to read this report (via  Mr. Salmon ,) in the Washington Post : Rep. Jim Cooper (D-Tenn.) believes it is time the sex ...
Saturday, April 28, 2012

Organizational strategy

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Brad DeLong: The strategy that Berkeley has settled on is to seek to produce the funding stream necessary to maintain a great University b...

On the tech beat

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Lots of interesting technology stories out that I ought to be blogging about, most via Felix Salmon. Salmon examines the career of "...