McDermott and Shleifer double-team Taleb and Kahneman
Not really. But I did enjoy reading the following passage from Andrei Shleifer’s review of Daniel Kahneman’s (superb) Thinking, Fast and Slow. To give contex...
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Why economists love auctions
Some background first: South Africa’s power market is utterly dominated by (a) coal and (b) Eskom, the parasitical parastatal monopoly. In a bid to encourage...
Bad science: Paleo diet edition
A while ago, I wrote a post praising the scientific approach that advocates of the paleo diet</a> appeared to be adopting in arguing their case. In par...
TEDxBergen
I mentioned the other day that I acted as moderator for the recent TEDxBergen conference. Videos of the various talks have now been posted online, but here a...
Joe Romm’s cognitive dissonance on renewables, nuclear and shale gas
I used to be an avid reader of Joe Romm’s “Climate Progress” blog. However, my enthusiasm has waned dramatically over the years due to his selective presenta...