Spooky Halloween Climate Economics Event, 10/30/23
Posted in Economic Illiteracy, Environment on Jul 18th, 2023
Homines libenter quod volunt credunt
Posted in Economic Illiteracy, Environment on Jul 18th, 2023
Posted in Employment on May 4th, 2022
Career engagement advice from Arnold Kling: Note Kevin Kelly’s succinct advice: Don’t ever work for someone you don’t want to become. My most succinct advice is: Work for a profit. Young people assign high status to non-profits and low status to profit-seeking firms. The should do the opposite. Profit-seeking firms are generally more sociotropic (the […]
Posted in Economic Illiteracy on Apr 6th, 2022
Posted in Central Planning, Disingenuous, Environment, If I Really Hated the Poor ... on Sep 13th, 2021
Just writing this down as a prediction to check later. If, and when, “we” are able to roll out fusion electricity at scale: It will massively reduce pollution, electricity costs, inequality, the worry about global warming, mining pollution, resource scares, clean water and much more … It will be hotly opposed by the very communities […]
Posted in Economic Illiteracy, Methodology on Aug 3rd, 2021
Is a pretty sure sign of confusion. Here, in reference to the “Science is Real” portion of those signs, is Richard Feynman: Learn from science that you must doubt the experts. As a matter of fact, I can also define science another way: Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts. When someone says […]
Posted in Flotsam and Jetsam on May 18th, 2021
A great man from our childhood has passed on. You may or may not find his story incredible or uplifting, but his little butcher shop on Jamaica Avenue in Woodhaven was a centerpiece of our lives growing up. I still can feel the sawdust on the tile floor of his shop, and the enormous hanging […]
Posted in Education, Racism and Anti-racism on Apr 17th, 2021
Nixon certainly made a lot of use of that idea. Not sure how prevalent it was before him. I also think it is overused today, and from an information economics perspective you can understand why. In any case, here is a parent willing to not remain silent. April 13, 2021 Dear Fellow Brearley Parents, Our […]
Posted in Central Planning, ethical foundations, Health Care, If I Really Hated the Poor ..., Racism and Anti-racism, You Can't Have it Both Ways on Mar 29th, 2021
This post is not intended to be an all-encompassing discussion of the problem of kidney shortages, and the main arguments for an against, rather it is a lightly edited illustration of the conversations we have after I teach lectures on the “efficiency” of the current kidney allocation system. Indeed, we end up having one to […]
Posted in Adaptation, Economics 238W, Economics Problems, Environment on Mar 27th, 2021
I will refer you later to a much larger work I’ve put together on “everything you need to know about the economics of climate change” … and among the key uncertainties are: What is the equilibrium climate sensitivity (i.e. long-term feedback)? There is zero consensus on this. (“feedback”) What is an appropriate way to count […]
Posted in Classical Liberalism, Education, Racism and Anti-racism on Mar 25th, 2021
Wherein Cornell tries to put the locomotive back on the tracks. I doubt it will do much, it may be performative too, but at least they are recognizing the cancer. Cornell Policy Statement on Academic Freedom and Freedom of Speech and Expression Cornell University respects and is committed to fundamental principles of academic freedom and […]