Homines libenter quod volunt credunt
Posted in Fun Facts on Mar 7th, 2011
Arguably my best student here at Rochester (in the most complete sense of the term student) has a 3.81 GPA in two of the more difficult majors on campus, and this puts him barely in the top quarter of the GPA distribution of our school. And Rochester is not famous for grade inflation. What does […]
Posted in Market Failures, You Can't Have it Both Ways on Mar 7th, 2011
Long-time readers are well aware of my extreme aversion to the blind invocation of “public goods problems” as either proof that freedom of exchange is a miserable rule by which a civilized society might operate or as justification for the government to expand its reach into more and more activities. More often than not, the […]
