Keith Hennessey, at Freakonomics:
Since much of economic policy is determined by law, rather than executive action, the biggest constraint is “How many votes can you get for that?”
Read the rest, it is quite entertaining.
In modern societies the bulk of political discussions about what set and structure of political and economic institutions would serve the society best revolves around the question of how much market regulation there should be.
Hal Varian says:
If you are looking for a career where your services will be in high demand, you should find something where you provide a scarce, complementary service to something that is getting ubiquitous and cheap. So what’s getting ubiquitous and cheap? Data. And what is complementary to data? Analysis. So my recommendation is to take […]
Have you ever wondered how future warfare would look like? What would it be like to command a small unit (or a whole army) on a tactical level in ten to twenty years? Think multi-touch and real-time strategy video games. When combined, these two ingredients provide a compelling answer.
@ john b
In some kind of idealised Platonic world where all discussion is based on syllogisms and indisputable facts, ad-hominem would be a fallacy. In a world where people actually lie about the facts all of the time, knowing whether a person is credible is just as important as the logical consistency of what they say.
My personal life is not an integral part of this blog but this particular thing is closely connected to the themes I comment on here. After, let’s say, dissatisfying experience with Polish higher education system I have somehow managed to become an external student of the University of London.
I do not know why it did not hit me straight in the face somehow. It seems that Samuel P. Huntington, one of the most important modern political scientists, best known for his concept of the clash of civilizations, passed away on December 24th, 2008. If you missed his works, now you have a great […]