Speaking of Foreign Languages Arnold Kling By Arnold Kling, Aug 12 2012 SHARE POST: How do you say “Have a nice day” in Japanese or French?
Aug 13 2012 Behavioral Economics Bastiat's "What Is Seen and What Is Not Seen": Who... Bryan Caplan Free-market economists almost always love Frederic Bastiat's classic essay, "What Is Seen and What Is Not Seen." But the central theme of the essay - opportunity cost - is hardly ideological. It seems like all economists, regardless of ideology, would be thrilled by the way that Bastiat brings a dry textboo... 30 Read More
Aug 12 2012 Economics of Education Can America Learn? Arnold Kling Timothy Taylor, the economics blogger with by far the highest signal-noise ratio, has another valuable post, this time spotlighting a piece by Martin West on Global Lessons for Improving U.S. Education. I'll snip from Taylor's excerpt: [T]here are three broad areas in which the consistency of findings across studies ... 24 Read More
Aug 12 2012 Eurozone crisis Speaking of Foreign Languages Arnold Kling How do you say "Have a nice day" in Japanese or French? 4 Read More