Thursday, June 13, 2013

The looting phase of (higher) education reform -- the opposite of cost disease

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The tuition spiral is a horrendously complex story involving organizational theory and economics and politics and culture, but there are som...
Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Thoughts on the NYT's attempt to reboot the Airport franchise

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I first heard about this through Brad DeLong who did, I will admit, have me going until I clicked through the link to this James Fallows pi...

Property Rights

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There is an argument that has been going around that is, roughly speaking, "if Libertarianism is so great why is no country organized a...

More adventures in intellectual property --- Ghost Rider rides again

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Not long ago, Marvel managed to get a couple of unlikely hit movies out of a fairly obscure motor-cycle riding character called. Ghost Rider...
Tuesday, June 11, 2013

When the guys who are in for murder one start arguing about Jane Austen...

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This is a bit outside of our normal education beat, but this account of a man's experience teaching English and Philosophy to lifers in...

Evolution and the breakfast landscape

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Here's a question about evolutionary psychology. Not a rhetorical question or a snarky question (even though I have been a bit snarky on...
Monday, June 10, 2013

Matt Yglesias may not be helping his cause

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There was an odd exchange recently between Diane Ravitch and Matthew Yglesias. Ravitch wrote a post about James Cersonsky's American ...
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Saturday, June 8, 2013

Investment advice from Alfred Hitchcock

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Mail Order Prophet, a 1957 episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents written by Robert C. Dennis (teleplay) and Antony Ferry (story) and starring...
Friday, June 7, 2013

"How do you make money doing this?" The answer is simple...

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If they hadn't used cast members, I wonder how many viewers would have caught on?

Thoughts on Ray Fisman's much alluded-to charter school article

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As mentioned before, Ray Fisman has a piece up at Slate discussing charter schools and it's quite good. Arguments for both sides are sp...
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Thursday, June 6, 2013

Give my regards to bean town, but...

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I found quite a bit to agree with in Ray Fisman's recent piece on charter schools (and even more to like about it), but I do have a coup...

Two things you should read in their entirety

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The first is Mike Konczal's analysis of the drivers of mass incarceration, " Against Law, For Order " As Bernard Harcourt ex...

Contests big and small

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This is a follow up of sorts to the recent Project Gutenberg Project post, not in that it involves similar data or statistical techniques bu...
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Wednesday, June 5, 2013

More thoughts on dumping

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I'll have more (mostly positive) on this Slate article by Ray Fisman, but first here's (hopefully) one last point on looting. As ...

You can listen to this before I do... if you hurry

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A couple of years ago, This American Life did one of the best pieces of reporting to date on patent trolling. Now they have a followup whi...