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Having read the Superfreakonomics climate-change chapter before it was taken down, I’d have thought that, surely, it must be the book’s stupidest chapter. Perhaps not. Dubner and Levitt also take a courageously contrarian view on high-end prostitution.
Allie was smart, capable, technically sophisticated, and she also happened to be physically attractive, a curvaceous and friendly blonde [...]
Archive for the ‘Economics’ Category
October 20th, 2009
Category: Economics
October 15th, 2009
Ruminations on social and personal time preference, with an example
August 25th, 2009
A theological objection to Krugman’s coinage of “economic purgatory”.
August 2nd, 2009
My colleague Michael Pollan begins a reflection on not cooking from the appearance this week of a new movie about Julia Child and his recollection that her book and TV show gave his mother the courage to try real cooking. Pollan’s point, not surprisingly, is that we should cook more. Of that, more [...]
July 19th, 2009
Marx’s slogan “From each according to his abilities, to each according to his need!”, ironical or not, describes the contradiction of welfare economics not a scheme of economic organization, and should be dropped as the definition of communism.
May 31st, 2009
Although carbon offsets have been much maligned, they are a useful complement to policies that penalize carbon emissions.
May 7th, 2009
A big difference between what everyone calls a “carbon tax” and I, at least so far, stubbornly call a climate injury charge (CIC) (because it’s more accurate and anyway this is my blog post and I can do what I want) and a cap-and-trade (CAT) system is (i) neither an economic nor a political tactics [...]
