Category Archives: economics

paperless MMF

A first! Got a spam today of the classic chainletter type (send $5 to the first name on this list . . .) — using Paypal rather than snail-mail.

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one horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms

Bon mot from Objectionable Content: I have a somewhat detailed refutation of this notion, but if you’re pressed for time, here’s the abridged version: oh, come on now.

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we distort, you deride

A misquoted economist remarks: . . . (“I’m reading right off Fox news!” gets my vote as worst argument from authority ever).

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old medium meets new

It was a treat to see Eugene Volokh quoted in The Economist — to his own surprise.

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busk to the future

The poet Tom Digby asks (on his own list): Didn’t bards of old live largely on tips and free meals and such, rather than from some giant corporation pushing packaged “product”? Might the Internet move us back toward that model? … Continue reading

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Popshot

Popshot, a new punk rock magazine, scolds naïve anti-capitalists for getting the wrong end of the stick. (Found in Aaron Krowne’s blog of which I was not previously aware; he was on my list of sites to look at because … Continue reading

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envy rules

Research Shows Just How Much People Hate A Winner. This is scary: pointless envy is stronger than economists expected. (Full paper) Some of my libertarian dogma may need rebuilding.

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