March 2012
43 posts
February 2012
18 posts
“The 2012 presidential election will be remembered as a very important one. The...”
– Ross Douthat on Rick Santorum - By Reihan Salam - The Agenda - National Review Online
“What Chad is doing on Grindr—sending out face pics, chatting about his homosex...”
– Savage Love
“Defenders of the massive New Deal-Great Society entitlements are inclined to see...”
– Will Wilkinson, Taking Welfare and Hating It
“By providing means for small savers to protect themselves from inflation when...”
– Starter Savings Accounts
“Or is it all those people (I believe they call themselves consultants) who get...”
– Touching the void - FT.com
“The law—the world’s largest-scale attempt to bring philosophy into the public...”
– Boston Review — Carlos Fraenkel: Citizen Philosophers
“That’s why I, at least, will be rooting for more marriages to fail in 2012.”
– Recession and divorce: How the recovery will cause a boom in failed marriages, and why it’s good news. - Slate Magazine
Is Intrade really that useful? →
When I read this, what I really see is “markets are not very useful.” That’s what Intrade is. So I’m baffled.
The suggestion that pundits might be as accurate as prediction markets is not only empirically false, but is a mere analogue to saying that bureaucrats can coordinate economic activity as well as markets can.
It’s not that any one indicator (punditry,...
