Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Krugman is on a roll

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Krugman begins to build the case against a direct application of the theories proposed in Ayn Rand's magnum Opus  Atlas Shrugged here: ...

Relative versus absolute changes

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Paul Krugman : One implication of all this is what Gauti Eggerstsson and I ( pdf ) call the paradox of flexibility: making it easier for w...
Monday, July 15, 2013

Believe or not, I'm going to tie this in with the Fantastic Four

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Joseph Stiglitz has a NYT opinion piece entitled " How Intellectual Property Reinforces Inequality " which lays out in one of...

Call me suspicious...

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But I've gotten to the point where I look for signs of manipulation in all business news and brokers' recommendations. Case in point...
Saturday, July 13, 2013

Weekend blogging -- Listen slowly

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A music historian I know speaks eloquently about this very long piece (the first ten minutes of which can be heard here ). He has listened t...
Friday, July 12, 2013

Apologist Watch

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There is a danger in using small incidents to make big arguments. List enough anecdotes and you can often overwhelm by sheer weight even tho...
Thursday, July 11, 2013

Data points

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You could use this anecdote as a launching point for any number of interesting discussions, but I think it might be more valuable if it simp...
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Wednesday, July 10, 2013

I have no doubt these numbers were pulled from someplace other than "thin air"

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I have no opinion on the price of a share of Disney, but as of now I'm a bit more inclined to short  Credit Suisse : Here's someth...
Tuesday, July 9, 2013

[Insert joke headline here]

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Just when I was starting to feel bad about that Marx Brothers crack this comes along (from Yahoo ): In an attempt to ban Internet cafes ...

The show business equivalent of a patent troll -- more from the post pretense stage of intellectual property

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Back on the IP beat , take a look at this item from Entertainment Weekly : The Weinstein Company’s upcoming movie The Butler, which stars ...
Monday, July 8, 2013

S&P defense

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In a startling approach, S&P seems to be making a claim that their ratings are marketing activities and not a credible estimate of credi...

"Don't you cry for me..."

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In the recent IP thread (see here , here , here and here to get caught up), Joseph and I have generally been bemoaning regulatory capture ...
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Intellectual Property and Merit

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Mark and I had an offline discussion about how intellectual property law (intended to reward innovators) can often be co-opted by large fina...

Straw Stick Men

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You can find about sixty years worth of arguments suggesting that planetary exploration should be deferred until we have addressed some imme...
Saturday, July 6, 2013

Weekend blogging -- the surprising overlap between chemistry majors and comic book nerds

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OK... maybe not all that surprising. Here's the description from Freetech4teachers : The Periodic Table of Comic Books is a project...