Tuesday, November 30, 2010

What happens if you have a mortgage?

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Jon Chait talks about a new idea from Tea Party Nation : Tea Party Nation Judson Phillips thinks the franchise should be taken away from ren...
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Higher education and resource allocation

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It is a powerful argument to reduce the concerns of your opposition by reframing their views into something that seems absurd. Dean Dad writ...
Monday, November 29, 2010

All costs are linked

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From Austin Frakt : It’s convenient to think about health care costs and expenditure organized in two sectors, public and private. But one d...
Sunday, November 28, 2010

A point to ponder

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From Worthwhile Canadian Initiative : Indeed, this is the fatal attraction of socio-biology - it's too easy to come up with untestable e...

Comments on Grants

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Professor in Training mentions here recent experience of good comments and yet bring triaged by a granting agency. I think that this type ...
Friday, November 26, 2010

"The Instability of Moderation"

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Some essential Krugman today. You may not agree that we've entered the Dark Age of macroeconomics but Krugman makes a good case for how...
Thursday, November 25, 2010

Orlando Airport

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It has been a surprisingly pleasant experience, so far. The TSA screening was fast and polite (and the screener making announcements made p...
Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Happy Thanksgiving

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It has been a good year for OE (the default abbreviation of the blog title). We started in March 2009 as an experiment. The addition of Ma...

Dental Care

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So it looks like I am getting my second root canal next week due to a filling that went too deep. It is, sadly, one of my front top teeth (w...
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Monday, November 22, 2010

Industrial Policy

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I am a huge believer in mixed economies. But it is hard to prove that they are the best option for exactly the reasons that Ms. McArdle is s...
Sunday, November 21, 2010

Another argument for parenting as an addiction

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And unlike the one demolished here , the sitcom version actually makes some sense in terms of reinforcement schedules. Of course, this story...
Thursday, November 18, 2010

Impact Factors

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Frances Woolley makes a great point in Impact Factors and how they vary by field and by sub-field. This issue comes up in medical research...

Airline Security

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This is a nice point from Megan McArdle on the current value of airline security procedures: Somehow, this seems like a questionable reacti...
Wednesday, November 17, 2010

History question of the day

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This excellent column by Steven Pearlstein got me thinking, is hard-currency populism a new phenomena? I realize a lot separates Bryan and ...
Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Maybe this is making outcomes worse?

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From an interesting interview with a (formerly) obese cardiologist: In 2003, Gary Foster, now director of the Center for Obesity Research a...