Open borders, advertising, and politics in Britain Migrating to Britain? Please don’t (Marketplace)
Month: February 2013
British empire, diversity, empowerment
The diversity of outcomes in the British Empire, exports, and post-war economic sustainability: Which of the ruled appreciated the rulers and which did not? Book Review: Unfinished Empire (WSJ) This varied from locale to locale, a the author studies “the ways…
A Mormon’s beliefs
My Beliefs | Clayton Christensen There haven’t been many Mormons in my life (and although both Christensen and Romney have affected many of our lives, I don’t count them), but those that I’ve known have been people I admired. Christensen…
Lewis on Kahneman and Obama
For those that enjoy the former trader’s way of looking at things, here are a couple of older Vanity Fair stories from Michael Lewis. The King of Human Error Note that the logic of the “availability heuristic” is to avoid exerting…
Asteroid, meteor(ite), and Russian civil liberties, oh my!
a.k.a. The great big video post! The big one: Asteroid 2012 DA14 Passes the Earth (APOD) The big boom: The Great Russian Meteor of 2013 (APOD) Love those connections to to economics: Look, up in the sky … a gold mine in space? (Marketplace) Why…