July 2011
2 posts
Downplaying and Explaining the Racial Unemployment... →
Why Unemployment Refuses to go down →
June 2011
14 posts
Education fails boys →
Has education tilted from being misogynist to being misandrist?
Brainwashing the Corporate Way →
This article makes an interesting point I think. In college you learn that issues are often complex, not easily resolved by simple positions, and that therefore it’s unwise to be too hasty in jumping to an opinion. But I do feel like this gets extended to a point where if the facts are clear, people are often hesitant to take a clear stand for what is right. As a result, issues with profound...
If Americans Don't Get Hurt, War Is No Longer War →
“The Obama administration has come up with a remarkable justification for going to war against Libya without the Congressional approval required by the Constitution and the War Powers Resolution of 1973.”
Matt Stoller: Who Wants Keep the War on Drugs... →
Yes, It Is Another Slate Fail Edition... →
The Hubris of Barack W. Obama →
The Rich Pull Away from the Rest of America →
Electric Kool-Aid Conservatism →
Why the War Powers Act doesn't Work →
More Dubious Research: “It Would Take 62 Years in... →
Exotic spheres, or why 4-dimensional space is a... →
The Crisis in Male Wages →
The Marx-Mellon-Schumpeter-Hoover-Hayek Axis Is... →
May 2011
26 posts
30 Year Old Virgins →
Which Majors Lead to Jobs That Require a College... →
Stupidest and Most Dishonest Man Alive of All... →
NYT: Recent Grads are in trouble. →
This may over state the severity of the case for 2011 grads, given that the study was performed using 2009 data… at least I’m praying that’s the case, since I’m about to be one of them “recent grads.” Also, why is the NYT copying old stories from 2010 for their 2011 front page? Specifically, it looks like NYT’s editors have decided to repackage for May...
Understanding the wealth gap →
Information sharing interferes with 'wisdom of... →
A statistical phenomenon, called the Wisdom of Crowds, happens when a group of individuals make guesses and the average of the guesses reveal accurate average answers. However, researchers have discovered that when the individuals are made aware of other participant’s guesses, there is a clear disruption to the accuracy of the guesses.
Bizarre Equivalence Watch of the Day... →
The War against the weak →
Faulty Towers: The Crisis in Higher Education →
“A few years ago, when I was still teaching at Yale, I was approached by a student who was interested in going to graduate school. She had her eye on Columbia; did I know someone there she could talk with? I did, an old professor of mine. But when I wrote to arrange the introduction, he refused to even meet with her. “I won’t talk to students about graduate school anymore,” he explained....
The Moral Equivalent of the Parallel Postulate →
Hume’s separation between is and ought still stands today, regardless of the attempts of critics such as Sam Harris to derive morality from science.
A Philosopher in Love →
How Much Would the iPad 2 Cost If It Were Made in... →
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PR fills vacuum caused by shrinking newsrooms →
Walras Law vs. Monetary Disequilibrium theory →
Wikileaks: Police arrested movie pirate as a... →
April 2011
114 posts
Hoisted from the Archives: Macroeconomics Is Not... →
American basic economic security much different... →
Barnes & Noble adds apps to Nook e-reader →
“Barnes & Noble Inc. on Monday added an applications store and an email program to its Nook Color e-reader, bringing the $249 device closer to working like a tablet computer in the vein of the iPad.”
FINALLY! I’ve been looking forward to this for soo long! =D
Study suggests that men and women mean different... →
…but to be honest, I’m not sure I buy it.
UC Irvine has ridiculously low grade inflation →
Maybe I should’ve picked a school where I got an A for just showing up. It definitely would’ve looked better on my transcript for graduate schools… Then again, these are publicly available data. Maybe graduate schools already have an idea of the rate of grade inflation at each university and take that into account.
Inequalities and the Ascendant Right →
Cambridge Capital Controversy →
…represents a refutation of the idea that economic models can adequately aggregate the idea of capital into an empirical measure that is not dependent on the marginal rate of profit (interest), which thus has implications about the common economic prescription of marginal cost pricing.