Supply shortages in energy-rich AU are due entirely to foolish regulation. Turnbull threatens to deepen the mire::theaustralian.com.au/national-affai…
JohnHCochrane The Grumpy Economist: Health Care Policy Isn’t so Hard johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2017/09/health…
I’ve been teaching graduate course in trade at Uni Adelaide for a decade. 70% CHN, Asn.,Afr students. Many struggle..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…nK
nyrbclassics On the “economy of form and brevity of wit” of E.O. Plauen’s Father & Son bit.ly/2wcpDqi “A Cartoonist in..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…xF
If this is a “great win” then so were Stalin’s/Mao’s 5-year Plans. They, too, imposed government bullying on top of..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…BX
Parking-lot strategies: 4. Travel to a distant galaxy often compensated by low local search costs + easy access to worm-holes (elevators).
Parking-lot strategies: 3. Estimate churn in preferred locations. But… uncertainty in single sample; “prop & wait” externalities are high.
Parking-lot strategies: 2. Give optimism first shot: why not the best spot? Payoffs of a (bounded) contrarian gambit include smugness.
Parking-lot strategies: 1. Theorem: a useful (limited) metaphor of parking-lots is the Galton Board. Trick is to find upper/lower tails.
Sympathetic (!) NYT article Mag on Breibart editor. Great photos, too::nytimes.com/2017/08/16/mag…
SamKSS Turnbull Liberal government fails again.
Lobbyists and special interests win while consumers lose.
Hopeless.
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@tedgioia It’s still more remarkable how long this (almost) exact contemporary of J S Bach lived! pic.twitter.com/WXE3nJGwYX
CarolineFreund Why confronting China on trade right now is the wrong strategy || My latest bloomberg.com/view/articles/…
snlester From @inumanak, @dikenson and me, Renegotiating NAFTA in the Era of Trump: cato.org/publications/w…
Who blocks the ads that the ad-blockers introduce?::arxiv.org/pdf/1705.03193…
Detailed round-up of high quality research on gender differences (Damore claims contra PIchai supported)::heterodoxacademy.org/2017/08/10/the…
Hmm… Link referenced article at The Conversation is broken. Ahmadpoor+Jones can be found atscience.sciencemag.org/content/357/63…Zb
“Science most directly linked to application [has] major impact w/in science itself” See @mattwridley “Science is t..twitter.com/i/web/status/8…KO
Authors incurious about apparent dramatic improvements in 15th Century (rely on 19th C price series for tallow)::..twitter.com/i/web/status/8…em
snlester I tried to get inside Trump’s head and figure out how he thinks about trade: worldtradelaw.typepad.com/ielpblog/2017/…
It won’t be useful. Empiricism always underdetermines reality (Duhem, Quine). P-values are privileged rhetoric::twitter.com/DARPA/status/8…
The Devil’s Dictionary of Chinese socialism (Xinhua’s style guide)::twitter.com/zhangzizhu527/…
@alan_john_moran Unity? @timwilsoncomau says same-sex marriage fight diverts fm more important issues for electorat..twitter.com/i/web/status/8…Y7
@samirvarma @KlingBlog Maybe I’m being too polite. I mean e.g. the anti-sugar, anti-vaping, (parts of) the plain-pa..twitter.com/i/web/status/8…TB
Good fm @KlingBlog. Still, is the self-interest of “Baptists” (virtue-signallers, behavior nudgers) hard to discern?:twitter.com/samirvarma/sta…