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The talk I gave at Hoover on Wednesday, “Five Myths About Free Markets,” is on YouTube.
Here it is.
The talk I gave at Hoover on Wednesday, “Five Myths About Free Markets,” is on YouTube.
Here it is.
Feb 5 2012
From FastCompany Magazine. "Uncertainty is when you've defined the variable but don't know its value. Like when you roll a die and you don't know if it will be a 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6. But ambiguity is when you're not even sure what the variables are. You don't know how many dice are even being rolled or how many sides ...
Feb 5 2012
One of the issues that I have been thinking about since reading Coming Apart is segregation. 1. Where Bryan sees college as a useful signaling device for those who are cognitively gifted, I see it as a useful segregation device for the Vickies. 2. The segregation model predicts that as the society gets wealthie...
Feb 5 2012
The talk I gave at Hoover on Wednesday, "Five Myths About Free Markets," is on YouTube. Here it is.
READER COMMENTS
Alan Watson
Feb 5 2012 at 10:44am
Is this available as a podcast (mp3)? Thanks.
Daniel Klein
Feb 5 2012 at 5:01pm
Kudos! The talk is great — as expected.
David R. Henderson
Feb 6 2012 at 12:08am
@Daniel Klein,
Thanks, Dan.
@Alan Watson,
I think Hoover plans to put it on iTunes. When I find out, I’ll make an announcement on Econlog.
Ken B
Feb 6 2012 at 1:57pm
Yes, an excellent talk. My fact of the day is the workers unite quote. I already know which heart I am going to break with that one!
If I hadn’t run into some of these myths myself I wouldn’t believe some of them get any credence, like the racism one. Keep up the good fight.
Ken B
Feb 6 2012 at 2:01pm
Incidentally in the 90s I worked on software to replace operators and other people in telephone systems. I described my job as putting people out of work …
Scott Robinson
Feb 10 2012 at 11:24pm
Dr. Henderson, Saw your Hoover talk on line, but didn’t know how to reach you. A bit off topic, but the medical profession in the US is suffering from rolling shortages of many injectable drugs, particularly in oncology, and anesthesiology. I suspect the throttling hand of government is causing this to happen. Do you or any of your colleagues have any thoughts about this? A good graduate thesis topic?
Thanks,
Scott Robinson,MD
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