Friday, August 31, 2012

Stories worth catching (Public Radio Edition)

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From All Things Considered : "One of the amazing things about the Denisovans is we still don't know what kinds of artifacts they...
Wednesday, August 29, 2012

More on the challenges of modern media

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More media issues by Jon Chait : In the campaign press corps, Romney’s brazen decision to not merely indulge in puffery or invective or ha...

Dealing with homeowners' associations has got to be hell for libertarians

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I'm serious. Is there any other institution so focused on making and enforcing trivial and often idiotic rules? From Marketplace : I...
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Tuesday, August 28, 2012

You need to listen to this story on the threat of a global food crisis

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No, I really mean you have to listen to it if you want to follow the story -- the text version is incredibly skimpy.  
Monday, August 27, 2012

More stories on infrastructure

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At some point one assumes that this system must be terribly broken: Littlefield also argues that judges in New York routinely side with co...

Seeing things differently

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This recent bit of advice for Mitt Romney from Peggy Noonan (by way of Brad DeLong ) brought home how perceptions can differ from p...
Sunday, August 26, 2012

Robert H. Frank comes out strong for the carbon tax

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While we're on the subject , check out this op-ed in the New York Times: Mitt Romney, for his part, has been equivocal about whether ...
Saturday, August 25, 2012

Megafires, incentives and the inactivity bias

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One of the recurring themes of my conversations with Joseph is this country's growing disinterest, bordering on antipathy, in getting t...
Thursday, August 23, 2012

Let's say there's no global warming...

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Here's a short list of a few of the things, some big, some small, that we could look to to address climate change: Smart Grid/Smart M...

Megafires

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A truly scary story from All Things Considered. This is what happens when bad management meets climate change.
Wednesday, August 22, 2012

The perils of 401(k) accounts: a continuing series

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Megan McArdle is back with this observation : The 401(k) I started in the late 1990s, before I went to business school, is worth less tha...

Government Health Care

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Aaron Caroll: There are plenty of things that government does poorly. Or, at least you can make that argument, and find some support for i...
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Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Hearst and Hitler

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In one of those synchronicity moments, shortly after writing this post about how the movie Citizen Kane plays with the persona of William ...
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Monday, August 20, 2012

Levitt and publishing bias in medical journals

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Via Andrew Gelman here is a quote from Steven Levitt When I told my father that I was sending my work saying car seats are not that effec...
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Cost is tricky in health care

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An interesting Yglesias post: Instead the existing Medicare Advantage program tries to apply a risk-adjustment formula to the patients, a...