Thoughts

The term “Structural unemployment” has a technical definition and a colloquial definition. And authors frequently criticize the colloquial as not matching the technical, rather than the premise put forth by

From Economist’s View (In reference to Schiller’s argument (in an exceptional recent paper) that economists should be more interdisciplinary.) Is Adam Smith Partly an Economist, or Wholly a Moral Philosopher?,

Do you know Godwin’s law? That any internet discourse eventually devolves into something involving Hitler? There is a new law. I’m coining it, as Doolittle’s law: The minute someone mentions

http://www.capitalismv3.com/?p=2427a) “Is adam smith … an econometrician, or a moral philosopher?” He is a moral philosopher. b) “Is adam smith … an economist or an econometrician?” He is an economist.

http://www.capitalismv3.com/?p=2425I’m coining a new term. Doolittle’s law: The minute someone mentions Sweden in an economic argument, you know that they’re analysis is wrong. Source date (UTC): 2011-03-26 01:14:00 UTC

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/25/deficits-and-the-printing-press-somewhat-wonkish/Agreed that we need stimulus. Agreed that we can finance the debt.The question on the right, is rather, “How can we insert that money into the economy without subsidizing the

http://bit.ly/ePQU0SYes. But a) Wealth is not the same as cash, and is not the same as income. The money is largely held as debt which is in use and recirculated

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12811197Well, this begs the question of what classifies a system of narrative myths and values as a religion? I would argue that Democratic Secular Humanism is a mythology predicated on

I think I am the luckiest guy in the world. Source date (UTC): 2011-03-22 19:51:00 UTC

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/03/21/trump-i-screwed-gaddafi/The point he’s making is that we are getting ‘screwed’ around the world all the time, and that we need to stop giving away our future. Source date (UTC): 2011-03-22

http://www.industrygamers.com/news/valve-disappointed-in-ad-agencies-for-marketing-almost-worthless/An honest appraisal. Now, the fact that Valve owns their own client base and distribution system, and that as a game company they have strong creative and storytelling, makes them

So, this silly person sends me a religious diatribe quoting scripture and all manner of other deists as if it’s some scientific and scholarly work that will convince me that

March 15th, 2011 Ok, so before I get started here, let me avoid a little criticism right from the start. I’m not a typical agency guy. While I’m the CEO

http://mitnse.com/Why I am not worried about Japan’s nuclear reactors – MIT’s Oehmen Source date (UTC): 2011-03-15 05:22:00 UTC

Arriving in Atlanta after a week in New York is like entering a sensory deprivation chamber. Source date (UTC): 2011-03-13 19:33:00 UTC

http://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/aer.101.1.1The Top 20 Articles Of The Past 100 Years from American Economic Review. http://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/aer.101.1.1 Source date (UTC): 2011-03-13 18:48:00 UTC

http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/living/not-as-old-as-you-thinkYoga is a modern invention, and largely American, or at least western rationalist in origin. Not one of my areas of interest, other than the pervasive distribution of thought around

I argue that anarchic propertarianism is a brilliant and fruitful research program. But it is, as currently envisioned, another luddite fantasy rather than an institutional solution to modernity that can

Don’t get me wrong. I’m all in favor of NPR. I’m a listener, albiet not a frequent one. On the other hand, using taxpayer money for purposes that are political

http://www.capitalismv3.com/?p=2421Equal opportunity criticism. Source date (UTC): 2011-03-12 19:48:00 UTC