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The Second Debate in Real Time at Steven Landsburg | The Big Questions: Tackling the Problems of Philosophy with Ideas from Mathematics, Economics, and Physics
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The First Debate in Real Time. The Second Debate in Real Time. August 6, 2015. This thread is your opportunity to post comments on the second (9PM eastern time) Repbulican candidates’ debate, in real time as the debate occurs. I might or might not find the stomach to participate. Keep in mind the guidelines I posted yesterday:. I will have zero tolerance for comments that contribute nothing to the enterprise. In other words, anything of the form Ha ha! Now have at it. The First Debate in Real Time. Walke...
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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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This Would Be a Great Illustration of Comparative Advantage if It Weren’t Such a Great Illustration of Absolute Advantage 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. Goin’ To the Candidates’ Debate ». This Would Be a Great Illustration of Comparative Advantage if It Weren’t Such a Great Illustration of Absolute Advantage. July 29, 2015. Was a pioneer of quantum mechanics and quantum field theory. His work pervades all of modern physics. He was, by almost all accounts, one of the top 10 physicists of all time, and by many accounts one of the top 2 physicists of the 20th century. And he’s one of my personal heroes. What’s Fair is Fair. July 30, 201...
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Politics As Usual at Steven Landsburg | The Big Questions: Tackling the Problems of Philosophy with Ideas from Mathematics, Economics, and Physics
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The Ashley Madison Test of College Faculty Cluelessness ». August 9, 2015. To me, the biggest disappointment of this camapaign season has been Rand Paul. I’m sure there will be others. I just saw Senator Paul on Fox News, where he made four substantive statements, one nonsensical, one innumerate, one economically illiterate, and one evasive to the point of dishonesty. That workers save in taxes, leaving them not, as Senator Paul claims, with an extra $2000 in their pockets but with exactly an extra $0...
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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 “...
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Bosonic Ka-Ching Theory at Steven Landsburg | The Big Questions: Tackling the Problems of Philosophy with Ideas from Mathematics, Economics, and Physics
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News Flash ». May 12, 2015. George Johnson of the New York Times writes. In a saner world, where science and the law meshed more precisely, a case like Firstenberg v. Monribot would have been dead on arrival in court. It would be easy — in fact, Mr. Johnson of the Times finds it extremely easy — to see this case as nothing but a minor tragedy with comic overtones. But the issues it raises are deeper than that. First, this case is about as good as it gets if you’re looking for a reductio ad absurdum.
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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...
