The Archives: From One Year Ago, February 9-February 14, 2015

The Picks of the Litter: Today’s Greek Crisis: A Non-Platonic Dialogue Econ 191: Longest-Run Economic Growth Michael Cannon Cites Julie Rovner as an Authority Until She Corrects Him: Notice what he did there? He cited Julie Rovner’s story as an authority. When she pointed out to him that the story did not say what he had cited it to say, he shifted ground to not citing but challenging her reporting. I must say, the lies here are just too thick for me… The Ultimate Valentine’s Day Movie: “All of Me” The Ultimate Valentine’s Day Movie: All of Me Has David Autor Gotten Himself Hopelessly Confused with Respect to Average and Marginal Products? On Ross Douthat: The Case Against the Case Against the Crusades: “Raymond d’Aguilers: “Wonderful sights…. Piles of heads, hands, and feet were to be seen in the streets of the city. It was necessary to pick one’s way over the bodies of men and horses. In the Temple of Solomon, men rode in blood up to their knees and bridle reins…” Today’s Greek Crisis: A Non-Platonic Dialogue : Trying to Understand the Current State of Health-Care Debate. And Failing…: Can someone point me to something Stuart Butler has written in the past three years that has turned out to be correct? I mean, it seems to be blinkered, partisan, wrong — and obviously wrong at the time, both in its analysis of the political forces and of the policy substance. Am I wrong?… Live from teh Roasterie: The Unusual Plaintiffs Behind the Supreme Court Case of King: At least when the Cravath partners went hunting for named plaintiffs for anti-New Deal cases back in the 1930s, they found plaintiffs like the Schechters who had in fact been injured by New Deal policies… Hoisted from the Archives from a Decade Ago: Human Genetic Mixing Looks Remarkably Rapid to Me…: The mixing of the human genome via intermarriage occurs remarkably fast — we are and are likely to remain one single human race, and should treat one another as such… Michael Cannon Cites Julie Rovner as an Authority Until She Corrects Him: Notice what he did there? He cited Julie Rovner’s story as an authority. When she pointed out to him that the story did not say what he had cited it to say, he shifted ground to not citing but challenging her reporting. I must say, the lies here are just too thick for me… San Francisco! Such a Walkable City!: Someday I will remember that walking from the BART to the Fairmont/Ritz-Carlton/University Club will not repeat NOT make me happy… Econ 191: Longest-Run Economic Growth Tea. Earl Grey. Hot The Argument That Housing in Berkeley Is Not a Bad Value Is Easy to Make *Adam Smith’s Economics Once Again Proves Useful… : The Four Must-Reads You Need to Understand Thomas Piketty and His “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”: Focus: Thomas Piketty: “Putting Distribution Back at the Center of Economics: Reflections on Capital in the Twenty-First Century…. Suresh Naidu: “Capital Eats the World”…. Matthew Rognlie: “A note on Piketty and diminishing returns to capital”…. Robert M. Solow: “’Capital in the Twenty-First Century’ by Thomas Piketty, Reviewed”…

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