Homines libenter quod volunt credunt
Posted in Macroeconomics on Oct 2nd, 2009
Tyler Cowen excerpts a Paul Krugman piece: …this [Barro’s paper] tells us very little about what would happen under current conditions: during World War II there, um, was a war on: consumption goods were rationed, construction required special permits, and so on. The government was, in other words, deliberately suppressing private spending, through direct controls. […]
Posted in Economic Illiteracy on Oct 2nd, 2009
Another reason why teaching at the university level is so delightful … I never need to come up with new lecture material – it shows up like a gift every single day! A summary of the movie: Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation’s food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly […]
Posted in Unintended Consequences on Oct 2nd, 2009
I have anywhere between 250 and 400 students in my courses each semester. A good number of them (apx 20 students) have documented learning disabilities. Now I have no way of knowing what these disabilities are, for privacy reasons, so I am not able to figure out teaching strategies to help these students do well […]
