Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Felix Salmon catches me off guard

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When I see a headline like this: Don’t donate money to Japan I expect it to come from a Rush Limbaugh or some other professional xenophobe. ...
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Monday, March 14, 2011

Science Fiction Thoughts

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In an interesting post , Dominic Lukes asks if science fiction authors dream of dictatorships. It is an interesting question. Certainly on...
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Nobody talks about the Caulfield problem

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This is one of those fundamental, difficult-to-resolve questions with important implications that almost no one in the education debate has ...
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The paradox of New Haven

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Mark has been discussing Edward Glaeser and his comments on how universities can create urban prosperity . Now, I am a big fan of universit...
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Nate Silver takes apart another favorite political myth

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I get out of the habit of reading 538 when we don't have an election looming and I miss out on things like this: There’s Nothing Special...
Sunday, March 13, 2011

Weekend Gaming -- The Game of Gale

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As promised , here's an introduction to David Gale's elegant Game of Gale (and, no, Gale didn't come up with the name; Martin ...
Friday, March 11, 2011

I don't know what to make of this...

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From the Monkey Cage (via DeLong ):
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Does anyone out there know Michael Winerip?

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If so, please tell him that he needs to read this discussion on Andrew Gelman's blog. There are things he that he really ought to know.
Thursday, March 10, 2011

Folsom Prison Blues

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I previously alluded to some threats to California's spectacular university system. The most ominous one is a product, believe it or no...
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One way of handling worrisome demographic shifts in the electorate

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On the bright side, this does have a certain directness going for it (from Yahoo): Boosted by major electoral gains in state legislatures n...
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A useful table and a few observations

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Wikipedia has an interesting article on academic rankings . We could (and probably should) spend a lot of time going over this, but here are...
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Universities and Growth

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Mark had a really nice post about one of Edward Glaeser's points. Mark points out that it seems odd that Glaeser overlooked the school...
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If only there were a major university in the Detroit area

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Maybe we could put one in Ann Arbor. From Edward Glaeser : But there was a crucial difference between Seattle and Detroit. Unlike Ford and ...
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Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Felix Salmon shoots the elephant in the room

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A few years ago, there was an infomercial for something called the AIM (Automated Investment Management) System. The developer, a disreputab...

Firing Teachers

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Yikes. In the same blog post we have: But I also recognize that this is no panacea. At a minimum, making teachers easier to fire needs to...
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