Sure, I’m on board with there being more narrative people around, as this WaPo article suggests. The economists in this story seem to want to have them around for rhetorical reasons, though,… Continue reading…
I’ve thought that unions are overall a good thing since I was able to earn a paycheck. When I first became department chair, I recall going on a retreat with other new chairs from across… Continue reading…
There’s been a series in the New York Times about slavery and its legacy that featured an article about how the plantation grounds the forms of capitalism we find today in the US. Phillip… Continue reading…
I’ve tried to make this case to various people, usually to no avail (well, not everyone – you know who you are). I said to someone not long ago that I saw Obama… Continue reading…
This article (behind paywall, sorry) is about the history of politicians and administrators saying that their universities can’t be “all things to all people” (the 5-word phrase in the title). It tells the… Continue reading…
from Jan. 5, 2018
Going into a bank, any bank, is for me an exercise in carefully repressed rage. The people who work there are generally perfectly nice. But it is all against a… Continue reading…
From Oct. 10, 2017
This article gives a decent description of how Thaler’s work pushed back against economic orthodoxy of the time. What’s interesting to me is that it also uncovers a fault… Continue reading…
From Dec. 3 2016
I was reading through my June 1903 copy of The American Boy, as one does, and came across this little racist nugget in an article on lacrosse:
“It is characteristic of… Continue reading…
From Dec. 1, 2016
Yes, America, there’s still a “rest of the world.” What’s happening out there? Well, likely lost in all the fear and uncertainty in the US is an economic experiment… Continue reading…
