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Teeming Multitudes: March 2010
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Get in line. Wait your turn. Wednesday, March 31, 2010. Interesting conversation between Will Wilkinson and Stephen Marglin. Of Harvard. I listened to this because Stephen Marglin is a distinguished radical/communitarian Economist and because I hoped that listening to a smart man I confidently expected to disagree with would kickstart my brain. As expected, I disagreed with most of what he said. What was unexpected was that I largely agreed. With him about what. To assign to those losses and benefits.
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Teeming Multitudes: On Merit
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Get in line. Wait your turn. Wednesday, February 29, 2012. In this very wise essay. Michael Young reminds us that the 1958 book in which he coined the word "Meritocracy" was meant to be a warning. It is good sense to appoint individual people to jobs on their merit. It is the opposite when those who are judged to have merit of a particular kind harden into a new social class without room in it for others. There are any number of arguments against Meritocracy:. Thus, because we believe that we reward virt...
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Teeming Multitudes: April 2010
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Get in line. Wait your turn. Monday, April 26, 2010. Bloggingheads dialog on Authenticity. Links to this post. Thursday, April 15, 2010. More O'Henry than Chekov, but still.This French short movie is set in the metro and is called J’Attendrai Le Suivant (I’ll Wait for the Next One). It was nominated for an Academy Award for the Best Short Film in 2002. Links to this post. Saturday, April 10, 2010. How to Swim: Basic Butterfly. Links to this post. Thursday, April 08, 2010. In one, he agrees. Looking at In...
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Teeming Multitudes: Moneyball: this is not a review
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Get in line. Wait your turn. Monday, March 05, 2012. Moneyball: this is not a review. I recently watched Moneyball. One of the most moving scenes in the movie is the one where you watch Billy Beane begins to assemble a team from players who have been overlooked by other teams. You can see how much it matters to them when he asks him to play for him. What does this imply for my post about Meritocracy. Doesn't it show that free markets reward talent? Virtues are very real. We then assume that they would ha...
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Teeming Multitudes: May 2010
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Get in line. Wait your turn. Thursday, May 27, 2010. One more Philippe Halsman. Links to this post. Monday, May 24, 2010. The first image is of Dali, the second is of Merce Cunningham and Martha Graham. The photographs are by Phillippe Halsman. They are both from this article. In the New York Times. (The slide show won't allow me to reuse the images, so hunted them down on the Internet.). Links to this post. Space Shuttle: Time Lapse Movie. Links to this post. Thursday, May 20, 2010. Links to this post.
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Teeming Multitudes: March 2012
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Get in line. Wait your turn. Saturday, March 17, 2012. Of taking on this patient! Throw him out of the office! He is most likely a psychopath and you will not be able to help him.". From Daniel Kahneman's "Thinking, Fast and Slow. Links to this post. Tuesday, March 06, 2012. What words can do justice. From the National Geographic on the Rhino Wars. Adam Omizek at Modeled Behavior recently blogged. Links to this post. Monday, March 05, 2012. Moneyball: this is not a review. I recently watched Moneyball.
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Teeming Multitudes: Taxes II
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Get in line. Wait your turn. Saturday, March 03, 2012. I recently read this article in which Samuel Brittan argues. For a tax on land, and quotes Winston Churchill. I am no expert on Georgism, but I am intrigued. Bryan Caplan, however, doesn't like. I am nor persuaded by Bryan's argument. The company will look at the total profits which it can make by investing in finding and developing the oil field. The Western oil companies just get to keep the additional profits made by extracting, refining, shipping...
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Teeming Multitudes: Unearned Income
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Get in line. Wait your turn. Thursday, March 01, 2012. Why we are so enamored with the idea of paid work? This is not about political preferences. The Right bangs on about welfare queens, the left proclaims the virtues of the working classes. Does anybody like idle people? Strangely enough, as this article. By Samuel Brittan shows, Hayek seems to have had no problem with them, or those of us who merely aspire to be completely idle some day. Now that Europe is in crisis, it will be argued that a CBI is im...
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Teeming Multitudes: February 2010
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Get in line. Wait your turn. Thursday, February 18, 2010. By carl Zimmer on fear in mice and men. Oddly, just reading this description got my heart going faster. Turns out that fear in humans is very similar to fear in mice. Links to this post. It came from Newcastle. By Robert Allen on why the Industrial Revolution was British. He argues that Britain boostrapped its way into the Industrial era. I have excerpted heavily below, while trying to point out the main points. As London grew, the price of wood s...
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