Population and Chess Bryan Caplan By Bryan Caplan, Jun 4 2011 SHARE POST: Population doesn’t just predict Olympic gold medals and movie production; it also predicts the average ranking of countries’ top-ten chess players. In a multiple regression, population and per-capita GDP both matter, just like Julian Simon and New Growth Theory tell us to expect: HT: Tyler, of all people
Jun 4 2011 Finance: stocks, options, etc. Timothy Taylor Does Have a Blog Arnold Kling He started it a while ago. Two weeks ago (his first post?), he wrote, This graph needs a short explanation of what net lending is (that is, new lending minus repayments and charge-offs). But seeing a graph that goes up and down over the decades since 1950, but then turns violently negative the aftermath of the crisis... 4 Read More
Jun 4 2011 Economic Methods Sen on "Methodological Individualism" David Henderson I'm at a weekend conference in Indianapolis that started last night and goes through tonight. About 14 people, roughly evenly split between philosophers and economists, are working our way through Amartya Sen's The Idea of Justice. One of the things I'll raise is a jarring passage on "methodological individualism." ... 12 Read More
Jun 4 2011 Growth: Consequences Population and Chess Bryan Caplan Population doesn't just predict Olympic gold medals and movie production; it also predicts the average ranking of countries' top-ten chess players. In a multiple regression, population and per-capita GDP both matter, just like Julian Simon and New Growth Theory tell us to expect:HT: Tyler, of all people 5 Read More