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Modelling lame duck prime ministers — Crooked Timber
http://crookedtimber.org/2006/04/07/modelling-lame-duck-prime-ministers
Modelling lame duck prime ministers. April 7, 2006. David Clark in the Guardian. We start by assuming that there is a single “representative” MP, that all he wants is a “prize” (say a ministerial job or some other sort of preferment) and the only way he can get a prize is by grovelling. He has to decide whether to grovel to Tony or to Gordon. We model this thing starting from day 1 of the current Parliament. 6When Gordon gets in, the shit-list is only relevant to people who got prizes under Tony. Peo...
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Clear Blue Water? — Crooked Timber
http://crookedtimber.org/2005/10/09/clear-blue-water
October 9, 2005. If you wanted some evidence that significant strands in the modern British Conservative Party have simply no understanding of the country they aspire to govern, and consequently an explanation of why they’ve deserved to lose out so badly in their last three attempts to be allowed to do so, I suggest you could do worse than having a quick listen to this. My link is to this weekend’s edition of BBC. Dimbleby: British people don’t care about right or wrong? Ancram: I think that in a sense i...
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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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Rationality repost — Crooked Timber
http://crookedtimber.org/2005/10/14/rationality-repost
October 14, 2005. Discussion of game theory inevitably brings up the question of whether game theory relies on an assumption of rational behavior. And, if so, whether this is a weakness or a strength. Rather than respond, I thought I’d dig up this old post from my long-abandoned (but still planned-to-be-revived-one-day) Word for Wednesday series. I’ve added a couple of links and made some minor changes. You must be in favor of economic irrationalism’. The basic problems surround the kind of use that is s...
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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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Chichele Professorship of Social and Political Theory — Crooked Timber
http://crookedtimber.org/2007/12/20/chichele-professorship-of-social-and-political-theory
Chichele Professorship of Social and Political Theory. December 20, 2007. Most people in the political theory/philosophy community probably know that G. A. Cohen is retiring (that’s a verb, not an adjective, as anyone who knows him would know) from the post of Chichele Professorship of Social and Political Theory. A rather brilliantly prosaic job advertisement is on the Vacancies page. At the Department of Politics and International Relations (deadline Jan 7th). There’s a grander job ad here. I bet Thoma...
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This conversation can serve no purpose anymore. | The Edge of the American West
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The Edge of the American West. About The Edge of the American West. This conversation can serve no purpose anymore. April 2, 2009 in film history. On this day in 1968,. 2001: A Space Odyssey. I’ve revisited it a few times over the years, and I always have different reactions, but they usually include. 1 Where’s my goddamn moon shuttle? 2 “Bell.” Heh. “Pan-Am.” snif. 3 We really are, as a culture, poorer for not having the Soviets as staple villains. (Not that you can’t muff that. My favorite recycling of.
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The Jamaican experience in Bristol — Crooked Timber
http://crookedtimber.org/2010/04/02/the-jamaican-experience-in-bristol
The Jamaican experience in Bristol. April 2, 2010. This is pretty good, though it tails off towards the end. The material about breaking the “colour bar” on the Bristol buses, the St Paul’s riot of 1980 and the growth of drugs in the 1990s is all very well done. (Best seen by going to Playlist. 040210 at 5:23 pm. 040210 at 9:39 pm. That was very nice, thanks! 040410 at 5:47 am. V interesting, and Playlist works well to overcome the need to split videos in short YouTube segments. 040910 at 3:16 am. Ken Ma...
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Playing Russian Roulette with the Internet — Crooked Timber
http://crookedtimber.org/2012/12/14/playing-russian-roulette-with-the-internet
Playing Russian Roulette with the Internet. December 14, 2012. I’ve been meaning to write something about the International Telecommunication Union negotiations in Dubai, not least because I helped out in a small way with getting the International Trade Union Confederation. And Greenpeace involved. But time and events kept rushing past, and other people did it better, particularly Jack Goldsmith’s ‘opinionated primer’. But if anyone wants to catch up, the BBC. Is pretty much on the money. Sec Gen. ma...
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