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- 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.
- PLAYING WITH MATCHES NEAR A GASOLINE TANK. (1)
- Mary Jane Schaefer: Why would the French care? As long as they take down Britain?
- NORWAY’S CHRISTMAS BUTTER SHORTAGE. (1)
- Mary Jane Schaefer: Christmas with a butter cookie shortage–in Scandinavia. This isn’t even Scrooge. This...
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Monthly Archives: May 2008
POPULAR DISSATISFACTION WITH UMPIRING.
POPULAR DISSATISFACTION WITH UMPIRING. ESPN had a poll during lst week’s Sunday night game on whether there should be instant replay for questionable home run calls (e.g., near the foul pole). There were a couple hundred thousand responses and 82% … Continue reading
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HOW MUCH FOOD DO SUPERMARKETS WASTE EACH DAY?
HOW MUCH FOOD DO SUPERMARKETS WASTE EACH DAY? In a world with so much poverty and hunger,when I am in a supermarket at the end of a day, I tend to wonder about the unsold food going to waste. The … Continue reading
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THE RELATIVE POVERTY OF VERY POOR PEOPLE.
THE RELATIVE POVERTY OF VERY POOR PEOPLE. The new approach I posted on yesterday takes into account concepts of relative poverty in setting the new guideline of $1.25 a day. The authors argue that relative poverty (whether my neighbor is … Continue reading
WHY THE ONE DOLLAR A DAY LINE IS VALUABLE.
WHY THE ONE DOLLAR A DAY GUIDELINE IS VALUABLE. What I find valuable about a poverty guideline (whether $1 a day or $1.25 a day) is that it focuses attention on the way that many people are living. (I prefer … Continue reading
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MEASURING “ESCAPES FROM POVERTY.”
MEASURING “ESCAPES FROM POVERTY.” I don’t think that the new poverty line is of much use in telling us who is poor. When I posted here on studies of how people (twenty to forty per cent of people in the … Continue reading
LIVING ON $1.25 A DAY.
LIVING ON $1.25 A DAY. The phrase isn’t as memorable as “LIVING ON $1 A DAY”, is it? This article in The Economist also thinks that “as a slogan, $1.25 just doesn’t have the same ring.” The “dollar-a-day” definition goes … Continue reading
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FAKE TRUCK, FAKE WATERMELON?
FAKE TRUCK, FAKE WATERMELON? It has been called to my attention that there is on the internet a short demonstration—which I have watched—of a lady crushing a watermelon with her thighs. I do have one reservation. It occurs to me … Continue reading
I MAY BE VULGAR, BUT I’M NOT A UTOPIAN (COMMENT).
I MAY BE VULGAR, BUT I’M NOT A UTOPIAN (COMMENT). Dick Weisfelder commented on my acknowledgment that I tend to look at history from a Marxist point of view that I’m “just what Marx would call a vulgar utopian, not … Continue reading
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MARXISM AND FARCE.
MARXISM AND FARCE (COMMENT). Annalisa here and Dick Weisfelder here expressed surprise that I acknowledged that in some sense I have Marxist tendencies. It is true that I am not a thoroughgoing Marxist or a scientific socialist (or a socialist). … Continue reading
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A NOVELIST WHO REJECTED DIALOGUE.
A NOVELIST WHO REJECTED DIALOGUE. I have also read somewhere recently that Nabokov would glance through a novel to see if it had dialogue. If it did, he wouldn’t read it.
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