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- ARE PEOPLE LESS VIOLENT? (COMMENT). (2)
- Dick Weisfelder: My prior comment was just in the context of sports. Whether or not from Pinker, I have seen the...
- erik: It seems doubtful that human nature has changed. The most likely explanation would be that modern culture gives...
- HOW BANKS PREPARED FOR A U.S. DEFAULT. (2)
- GREECE’S ADVANTAGE IN THE CHICKEN GAME. (2)
- Nick: That makes sense. It reminds me of the stories Pater Familias would tell me about how in Boston the person with...
- Dick Weisfelder: Greece seems to me to be playing a game that Karl Deutsch called “underdog.” While one...
- FOOTBALL PLAYERS DELIBERATELY CAUSING CONCUSSIONS? (3)
- Nick: It was my understanding that boxing gloves were to protect the puncher’s hands and not the...
- Dick Weisfelder: Remember the Roman arenas? Bare knuckled boxing? Such injuries were taken as natural and accepted in...
- Mary Jane Schaefer: This isn’t about football. Or even sportsmanship. Well, it is about sportsmanship. But what...
- A 25 % CHANCE OF A EURO DEFAULT? (1)
- Nick: The fact that this has gone on for so long is pretty perplexing. The Economist is referring back to articles it...
- DECIDING WHAT KIND OF PATIENT YOU ARE. (1)
- Dick Weisfelder: One can be very open to new technology, but also risk averse. The recent debates about how to...
- THE EUROZONE—A CHICKEN GAME WHERE EVERY MEMBER CAN BLOW IT UP? (1)
- Mary Jane Schaefer: This is not a matter of chicken. These are all turkeys.
- ARE PEOPLE LESS VIOLENT? (COMMENT). (2)
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Monthly Archives: February 2007
TEARS ARE ROUND, THE SEA IS DEEP.
TEARS ARE ROUND, THE SEA IS DEEP. Yesterday, when I posted on Auden, I remembered that I quoted Auden earlier when he said, “No man ever said with satisfaction, ‘I almost married the girl I love’ or a nation, ‘We … Continue reading
Posted in Literature
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W.H. AUDEN AT 100.
W.H. AUDEN AT 100. Today is the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of W.H. Auden. He was living in New York City when we lived there, and he was listed in the phone book with his address on East … Continue reading
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WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE POEM?
WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE POEM? Here are some answers at Asymmetrical Information. Mentions here of some of my favorite poets: Hopkins, Auden, Keats, Yeats, Stevens, Catullus. I have always found that the Anthony Hecht poem (at the end or almost) … Continue reading
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CAPITAL FLOWING INTO EMERGING ECONOMIES.
CAPITAL FLOWING INTO EMERGING ECONOMIES. The article in The Economist that I cited yesterday rejected a theory advanced by Michael Dooley, David Folkerts-Landau and Peter Garber, which argues that, in The Economist’s words, “Emerging economies with poorly developed financial markets … Continue reading
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CAPITAL FLOWING INTO RICH COUNTRIES.
CAPITAL FLOWING INTO RICH COUNTRIES. I often see comments that there is something unnatural about capital flows from emerging economies to developed countries. For example, the following is from The Economist of September 14, 2006 (from a file I used … Continue reading
ADUJSTED NBA STANDINGS REVISITED.
ADJUSTED NBA STANDINGS REVISITED. Today is the NBA All Star Game. On January 1, I posted adjusted standings which corrected for the fact that some teams had played a lot more home games than road games. I planned to revisit … Continue reading
Posted in Basketball, Sports
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THE FUTURE OF MONEY.
THE FUTURE OF MONEY. There are always new kinds of money….. (link via realclearpolitics)
Posted in Economics
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THERE IS NO SHORTAGE OF FOOD IN VENEZUELA.
THERE IS NO SHORTAGE OF FOOD IN VENEZUELA. This article describes how Hugo Chavez is trying to control inflation in Venezuela by price controls. Shortages of food items have developed. “But in recent weeks, the scarcity of items like meat … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Politics
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VULGAR, BUT COMPETENT.
VULGAR, BUT COMPETENT. Kids, when I was your age I had no idea of how much some people looked down on the middle class. This review of a book on de Tocqueville (who was a genuine aristocrat) quotes the following … Continue reading
Posted in History, Politics
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ARCHITECTURE AT NORTHWESTERN.
ARCHITECTURE AT NORTHWESTERN. My New York friends have remarked that my friends visiting from Chicago care about architecture, that they often ask who designed various buildings. There are displays along Dearborn in Chicago identifying the architecturally significant buildings (almost every … Continue reading
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