My new podcast on Eugen Richter’s Pictures of the Socialistic Future is up. The interviewer is the genteel Jeff Tucker, who spear-headed the republication of this neglected dystopian classic.
Jul 14 2010
When I teach why futures markets are so neat--they help people hedge against risk--I lay out numerical examples with oil or corn. Some of the students always wonder a little about how the actual transactions are made and I tell them. But I'd never found a clear piece laying out the mechanics that I could refer them t...
Jul 14 2010
The Council of Economic Advisers says so. The reason that the Council has about as much credibility as Baghdad Bob is that chart that everyone has seen showing that unemployment with the stimulus is higher than what they predicted without the stimulus. Their response is to come up with a new prediction model. We e...
Jul 14 2010
My new podcast on Eugen Richter's Pictures of the Socialistic Future is up. The interviewer is the genteel Jeff Tucker, who spear-headed the republication of this neglected dystopian classic.
READER COMMENTS
William Newman
Jul 14 2010 at 1:36pm
If you know of anyone looking for more examples of foresight to republish (or just to put on the web), I nominate “Getting Along With Doomsday” by Bryan Magee in the summer 1975 issue of Horizon magazine: a British MP’s diagnosis of a pattern of promoting a remarkable variety of new doomsday predictions to argue for a remarkably uniform set of policy preferences.
John Dougan
Jul 14 2010 at 4:02pm
You may want to reevaluate your post The Effect of Children on Happiness: The Latest from the Research Frontier as the author of the referenced paper has issued a very significant erratum.
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