IN THIS week's New Yorker, James Surowiecki argues that golfer Tiger Woods' marital infidelities and subsequent public scandal will significantly, [...]
IN THIS week's New Yorker, James Surowiecki argues that golfer Tiger Woods' marital infidelities and subsequent public scandal will significantly, [...]
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In the current New Yorker, James Surowiecki is properly critical of the economic distortions introduced by taxing debt-financed income much more lightly than taxing equity-financed income.
But his policy conclusion is a non sequitur:
Given the weak state of the economy and of housing prices, a wholesale rewriting of the [...]
I have just read Chapter 5 of Superfreakonomics, alongside the New Yorker review by Elizabeth Colbert. The focus is on climate change science – the science is uncertain and imprecise (nothing new there), but the claim is that climate change fears are overdone and technological solutions will fix the [...]
1. The vote to defund political science: how it went.
2. Jason Kottke doesn't read books anymore.
3. "Food rewards obsessiveness," the best eater in the United States. The full article is gated (the link offers only an excerpt), so buy the 9 November New Yorker. I don't usually [...]
Explain the economics behind 