Thursday, March 8, 2012

Food Stamps

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I was reading this piece by Ed Glaeser  (the danger of following links posted at Noahpinion) and came across this rather interesting sentanc...

Landsberg's latest

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Noah Smith points out a Steve Landsburg column that doesn't make a lot of sense.  I am going to try (although it is hard) to ingnore t...
Wednesday, March 7, 2012

STEM jobs

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Derek Lowe : But there's an even bigger problem with pushing STEM education: the jobs, in many cases, are not there. Now, this is a po...
Monday, March 5, 2012

A brief diversion into Media

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The problem with Fox News : But, there’s a bigger problem, and it goes to the real reason that Republicans who actually care about the fut...
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Sunday, March 4, 2012

Microfoundations

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Via Paul Krugman : A practical observation: the economists who get most bent out of shape at the notion that maybe we don’t always have to...
Friday, March 2, 2012

Has anyone heard from Dr. Glaeser recently on this topic?

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Here's Edward L. Glaeser back in June of 2009 discussing why the financial bailout was a better idea than the auto bailout : Since the c...

Added Sugars

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From Aaron Carroll : As we talk about how hard it is to combat obesity, it’s worth thinking about numbers like this once in a while. If we...
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Bleeding heart Randians

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Once again, Joseph has left it to me to play bad cop on the McArdle beat. As you can see from the previous post , Megan McArdle has a piece ...
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Thursday, March 1, 2012

Income stability

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This post has been questioned .  But I think some of the mockery is unwarranted as there is a pretty real point buried in this post: namely ...
Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Jones sings Nilsson

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It's easy to get distracted by the bad pop culture associations and forget that Davy Jones was a very talented man. (He'd earned a T...
Monday, February 27, 2012

To understand the health care debate...

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You have to understand the beliefs and assumptions held by various segments of the population. This is what one politically influential segm...
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Sunday, February 26, 2012

I think we are a long way from this scenario

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This seems a little extreme : The government has men with guns and dungeons. The armed men will throw you in the dungeon unless you pay t...
Saturday, February 25, 2012

Travel Update

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I am about to do another multi-city work trip. So blogging might be extremely light for the next week or so from my end, at least. Apolo...

MedicAid

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MedicAid is extremely cost-effective (at least by the standards of US medicine) and protects some of the most vulnerable citizens of the rep...
Friday, February 24, 2012

Odd Criterion

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Via Diane Ravitch : But one sentence in the agreement shows what matters most: “Teachers rated ineffective on student performance based on ...
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