It’s not every day that you’re called an idiot by Nassim Taleb
Or a “bloggist” for that matter.Here and here.To be fair, Taleb has charged that many minds superior to my own are beset by idiocy, so I’m in reasonable comp...
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Given the inadvertent success of my previous post, I’ve decided to take the philosophical route for this next one: My fifteen minutes of quasi-blogosphere fa...
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There is no cake-stagnation by Tyler Cowen Here. Paul Krugman writes about the virtues of black forest cake versus regular vanilla sponge. While ...
Are there any four-minute miles in economics?
3:59.4Roger Bannister’s four laps of the Iffley Road Track on 6 May 1954 have been immortalised in the annals of sporting lore and human achievement. By beco...
I, for one, welcome our new technocratic, environmentalist, socialist overlords
Any group that successfully manages to perpetrate a hoax involving tens of thousands of individuals from all over the world… would sure be able to elect a po...