A Sentence Too Good to Miss Arnold Kling By Arnold Kling, Jun 5 2008 SHARE POST: a donation to Harvard is an act of conspicuous consumption by the rich, a bit like buying the watch that doesn’t tell time. Tyler Cowen, and there is more with reading.
Jun 5 2008 Behavioral Economics The Golden Rules of Interpretation Bryan Caplan Robin Hanson has written the one piece that everyone on earth should read before they post comments on a blog:Writing is hard in part because words have many associations that vary among readers. Even when we use carefully choose our words to signal certain associations, we know some readers will instead hear other as... 5 Read More
Jun 5 2008 Business Economics Billers, Players, and Income Inequality Arnold Kling Another Nassim Nicholas Taleb quote: A scalable profession is good only if you are successful; they are more competitive, produce monstrous inequalities, and are far more random, with huge disparities between efforts and rewards--a few can take a large share of the pie, leaving others out entirely at no fault of their... 12 Read More
Jun 5 2008 Economics of Education A Sentence Too Good to Miss Arnold Kling a donation to Harvard is an act of conspicuous consumption by the rich, a bit like buying the watch that doesn't tell time. Tyler Cowen, and there is more with reading. 0 Read More