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News Flash at Steven Landsburg | The Big Questions: Tackling the Problems of Philosophy with Ideas from Mathematics, Economics, and Physics

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Innumeracy Watch ». June 26, 2015. Today, the Supreme Court ruled that the president of the United States can do any damn thing he wants to, regardless of the law. Where were these guys when Nixon needed them? To comment or read others’ comments. Innumeracy Watch ». Responses to “News Flash”. Feed for this Entry. June 26, 2015 at 7:51 am. Im a fan of your books and even if I disagree with your politics from time to time, I usually think it well thought. June 26, 2015 at 9:58 am. June 26, 2015 at 12:03 pm.

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Block Heads at Steven Landsburg | The Big Questions: Tackling the Problems of Philosophy with Ideas from Mathematics, Economics, and Physics

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The View From Olympus. Chips off the Block ». February 13, 2014. The righteously irrepressible Walter Block. Has made it his mission to defend the undefendable. But there are limits. Chattel slavery, for example, will get no defense from Walter, and he recently explained why: The central problem with slavery is that you can’t walk away from it. If it were voluntary, it wouldn’t be so bad. In Walter’s words:. So everybody’s on the same side, here, right? Surely nobody believes the slaves were voluntarily.

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What’s Fair is Fair at Steven Landsburg | The Big Questions: Tackling the Problems of Philosophy with Ideas from Mathematics, Economics, and Physics

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This Would Be a Great Illustration of Comparative Advantage if It Weren’t Such a Great Illustration of Absolute Advantage ». What’s Fair is Fair. July 28, 2015. Suppose you’ve got 1000 students to assign to two schools, each with 500 slots available. Everyone prefers the Good School to the Bad School. Which of the following is a fair way to decide who goes where? Randomly assign each student to one of two groups. Then flip a single coin to determine which group goes to the Good School. Economists often i...

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Thoughts on the Minimum Wage at Steven Landsburg | The Big Questions: Tackling the Problems of Philosophy with Ideas from Mathematics, Economics, and Physics

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It’s All About Me. Public Service Announcement ». Thoughts on the Minimum Wage. February 18, 2013. The usual case against the minimum wage has three components:. Minimum wages reduce employment among unskilled workers. Therefore minimum wages are bad for unskilled workers. Therefore minimum wages are bad policy. The problems with this case are that. Minimum wages might not reduce employment very much. Even if they do, that doesn’t make them bad for unskilled workers. Who in their recent book. On the subj...

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Sweet Talk at Steven Landsburg | The Big Questions: Tackling the Problems of Philosophy with Ideas from Mathematics, Economics, and Physics

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Bosonic Ka-Ching Theory ». May 5, 2015. Is it only me who is driven crazy by the American Heart Association’s campaign against “added sugars”, and the attendant campaign to label foods for their added sugar content? Look I am no expert, so correct me if I’m wrong, but as far as I can tell from a trip around the Internet, sugar is sugar. More precisely, fructose is fructose, glucose is glucose, and so it goes. The fructose in an apple is exactly as bad for you as the fructose in a Cola drink. Thus it&#821...

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Innumeracy Watch at Steven Landsburg | The Big Questions: Tackling the Problems of Philosophy with Ideas from Mathematics, Economics, and Physics

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What’s Fair is Fair ». July 10, 2015. While a team of four has just six interconnections, a team of 16 has 120 interconnections. It is near-exponential growth: n(n-1)/2. 8212; Rich Karlgaard and Michael S. Malone. July 10, 2015. To comment or read others’ comments. What’s Fair is Fair ». Responses to “Innumeracy Watch”. Feed for this Entry. July 10, 2015 at 9:59 pm. 8230;for sufficiently small values of exponential. July 10, 2015 at 10:31 pm. July 11, 2015 at 1:20 am. It seems okay to me. The term &#8220...

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Charges Dropped Against New Jersey Man After Dashcam Shows Cops Lying

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Consulting by RPM Free Advice Blog. Fruits of my labor. Charges Dropped Against New Jersey Man After Dashcam Shows Cops Lying. 76 Responses to “Charges Dropped Against New Jersey Man After Dashcam Shows Cops Lying”. Thank goodness we have an undersupplying monopoly of protection against such egregious behavior by the police. Keeps the citizenry on their toes…. 8221; Nothing but a bunch of gang banging thugs. I wonder how many innocent people are rotting in prison because of these scumbags. The yelling pa...

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Pacifism in 4 Easy Steps, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

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Obama Did Not Lie at Steven Landsburg | The Big Questions: Tackling the Problems of Philosophy with Ideas from Mathematics, Economics, and Physics

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Albert and the Dinosaurs ». Obama Did Not Lie. November 7, 2013. 8221; Your spouse, fed up with this discussion, replies: “We’ll take a rocket ship, okay? Actually, of course, your spouse knows perfectly well that you won’t be taking a rocket ship. So: Have you just been lied to? Them the same access as before. Nobody over the age of six can have failed to notice that. So when the President said he could expand the availability of medical care while allowing everyone else to keep the care they’...That ex...