Homines libenter quod volunt credunt
Posted in Health Care on Sep 21st, 2009
So, I’ve been feeling a bad cold/flu coming on for days. I don’t mind teaching with this condition so long as I can take enough Tylenol and Sudafed. However, with the onset of swine flu (I have several students with it) I wanted to make sure today that I did not have that particular virus […]
Posted in Economics Problems on Sep 21st, 2009
The “heterodox” department of economics at Notre Dame is being disbanded. When I went to their site to learn more about them, I was absolutely thrilled to see this as a goal of the department: Interested in devising effective policies. Really! Congratulations. And here I thought that academics and policymakers had as a goal to […]
Posted in Economic Illiteracy, Economics Problems on Sep 21st, 2009
Maybe I am inspired by the new series I wish to conduct on anti-capitalism. This will be the first in a series of posts on revealing myths about myths. In an article in Nature, in 1998, Economists Don Fullerton and Robert Stavins ignite one of the most combustible straw men in all of economics – […]
