Homines libenter quod volunt credunt
Posted in Environment, Socialism on Jun 27th, 2011
On corporations, clean energy, and the corrupt political process: Explaining this mystery (why Big Oil is not investing more heavily in renewables) may bring us back to where we started. In the childlike enchantment we’ve lived under since the Reagan era, we’ve wanted very much to believe that someone else, some wavy-haired CEO, would do […]
Posted in Education on Jun 27th, 2011
Dale and Krueger just updated their famous 2002 paper and demonstrate that: We find that the return to college selectivity is sizeable for both cohorts in regression models that control for variables commonly observed by researchers, such as student high school GPA and SAT scores. However, when we adjust for unobserved student ability by controlling […]
Posted in Environment, Unintended Consequences, You Can't Have it Both Ways on Jun 27th, 2011
The following passage has been lightly edited: Over the past decade these problems have cast long shadows, but we have been slow to recognize them. Most of those best fitted to develop natural controls and assist in putting them into effect have been too busy laboring in the more exciting vineyards of chemical control. It […]
