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Hazlitt, Keynes and the glazier’s fallacy — Crooked Timber

http://crookedtimber.org/2014/07/24/hazlitt-keynes-and-the-glaziers-fallacy

Hazlitt, Keynes and the glazier’s fallacy. July 24, 2014. I’ve been working for quite a while now on a book which will respond to Henry Hazlitt’s. Economics in One Lesson. A book that was issued just after 1945 and has remained in print ever since. It’s an adaptation of the work of the 19th century French free-market advocate Frederic Bastiat for a US audience, specifically aimed at refuting the then-novel ideas of Keynes. My planned title is. Economics in Two Lessons. Second, they can target their effor...

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Why doesn’t Science publish important methods info prominently? — Crooked Timber

http://crookedtimber.org/2015/05/07/why-doesnt-science-publish-important-methods-info-prominently

Why doesn’t Science. Publish important methods info prominently? May 7, 2015. Or “I thought Science. Was a serious peer-reviewed publication…”. Published today in Science. By Facebook researchers using Facebook data claims to examine whether adult U.S. Facebook users engage with ideologically cross-cutting material on the site. My friend Christian Sandvig does an excellent job. Not in the piece published in Science. Proper, but in the supplementary materials. We find the following:. And why does Science.

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Nietzsche Wins The Internet in 1886 — Crooked Timber

http://crookedtimber.org/2015/07/28/nietzsche-wins-the-internet

Nietzsche Wins The Internet in 1886. July 28, 2015. Couple weeks back I pointed out. Nietzsche was an internet theorist. He is a nice observer of the psychology of it. Stand tall, you philosophers and friends of knowledge, and beware of martyrdom! Of suffering “for the sake of truth”! Even of defending yourselves! And you of all people, her Knights of the Most Sorrowful Countenance, my Lord Slacker and Lord Webweaver of the Spirit! Beyond Good and Evil. 8217; – corner stander. Does it mean:. She is defen...

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Hurdy-Gurdy Facts and Fictions? — Crooked Timber

http://crookedtimber.org/2015/07/20/hurdy-gurdy-facts-and-fictions

Hurdy-Gurdy Facts and Fictions? July 20, 2015. I’m still preparing to teach Nietzsche. Today I was rereading “The Convalescent”, in. 8211; the key chapter in which the animals clue Z. in that his job shall be to teach Eternal Recurrence. A minor linguistic detail auf Deutsch. He is moping in the depths of his most abysmal thought and they – the animals – sing to him about how everything that goes around, comes around, and he calls them ‘barrel organs’ [. And accuses them of bothering him with a mere.

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Demography and irreligion — Crooked Timber

http://crookedtimber.org/2015/07/30/demography-and-irreligion

July 30, 2015. A few months ago, I was a bit surprised to read a report put out by the Pew Research Center predicting that the proportion of the world population without a religious affiliation would decline sharply by 2050. Which suggests the analysis should be solid. Still, I thought I would dig a bit, and found a longer version of the report here. Those born from 1981 onwards). This report showed that less than 60 per cent of Millennials currently report a Christian religious affiliation, compared...

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On the New York Intellectuals — Crooked Timber

http://crookedtimber.org/2015/07/26/on-the-new-york-intellectuals

On the New York Intellectuals. July 26, 2015. I first read Irving Howe in college, in Andrew Ross’ seminar on intellectuals. We read Howe’s ” The New York Intellectuals. 8221; I don’t remember what I thought of it. What I remember is that Howe was an object of great attraction for someone like me, the epitome of the independent left intellectual. This past year, I’ve been re-reading Howe. His literary criticism, which I used to love, now leaves me cold. 8221; It first appeared in . 3 The one politic...

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The Dread Pirate Roberts as Statebuilder — Crooked Timber

http://crookedtimber.org/2015/02/20/the-dread-pirate-roberts-as-statebuilder

The Dread Pirate Roberts as Statebuilder. February 20, 2015. My new piece at Aeon. Russell L. Carter. 022015 at 5:46 pm. 022015 at 6:03 pm. I really really like this essay. 022015 at 6:03 pm. That’s a very interesting and enjoyable article! 022015 at 6:05 pm. I am halfway through this piece and loving it and chortling aloud. 022015 at 6:07 pm. The pressure to introduce rating systems to handle trust is a current bugbear of mine. In many tech circles (and in a chunk of the academic literature) they se...

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Adam Smith in action — Crooked Timber

http://crookedtimber.org/2015/07/31/adam-smith-in-action

Adam Smith in action. July 31, 2015. The New York Times. The Wealth of Nations. 073115 at 9:01 pm. That Adam Smith, man. Of course, violating those unofficial no-raise pacts is what capitalistic markets are supposed to do. Eventually the heat or pressure of demand for employees or profits gets them to defect, unless they get the agreement/cartel in a legally enforceable fashion. 073115 at 9:24 pm. Helpful information for non-seattlites is that Canlis is probably the most expensive restaurant in the state.

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Migrant deaths: who is responsible? — Crooked Timber

http://crookedtimber.org/2015/04/21/migrant-deaths-who-is-responsible

Migrant deaths: who is responsible? April 21, 2015. Yesterday, in response to a series of tragedies involving migrants drowning in the Mediterranean, the EU issued a ten-point plan. 8220;the human traffickers and the criminals that are running this trade.” The one group European politicians are not blaming, by and large, is themselves. Yet they, and the electorates they appease, bear most of the responsibility. 042115 at 5:31 pm. 042115 at 5:46 pm. Isn’t that proportion a key datum? The others, also a si...

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Social security won’t be around long enough for me to collect it — Crooked Timber

http://crookedtimber.org/2014/03/23/social-security-wont-be-around-long-enough-for-me-to-collect-it

Social security won’t be around long enough for me to collect it. March 23, 2014. Salon has a couple of interesting articles about millennials. Tim Donovan focuses on the plight of young people without college education. Who are suffering the combined effects of long-term growth in inequality and the scarring that comes from entering the worst labor market in at least a generation[ 1]. Elias Isquith has a piece debunking Rand Paul’s prospects of pulling the millennial vote. 1]: As I’ve argued many. The s...