Owen Long has bet me $500 on the same terms as Samuel Knoche. Normally, getting anyone to bet even a dollar is like pulling teeth. For the future of college, however, relatively large bets have been coming to me lately. Hmm…
Owen Long has bet me $500 on the same terms as Samuel Knoche. Normally, getting anyone to bet even a dollar is like pulling teeth. For the future of college, however, relatively large bets have been coming to me lately. Hmm…
Dec 20 2018
"[T]he neo-romantic tales spun by Duneier, Anderson, and Newman at the close of the regressive nineties suggest that U.S. sociology is now tied and party to the ongoing construction of the neoliberal state..." This is from Loic Wacquant's 2002 review essay in the American Journal of Sociology, one of the field's ...
Dec 20 2018
A closer look, though, at the deregulatory movement of the 1970s offers some grounds for optimism. Neither Carter nor Kennedy was particularly ideologically opposed to regulation. Rather, the deregulation was due to a confluence of circumstances, not all of which could be predicted, but which one can imagine being imit...
Dec 19 2018
Owen Long has bet me $500 on the same terms as Samuel Knoche. Normally, getting anyone to bet even a dollar is like pulling teeth. For the future of college, however, relatively large bets have been coming to me lately. Hmm...
READER COMMENTS
gwern
Dec 19 2018 at 7:20pm
By same terms, you mean Long gets $500 if college enrollment falls >=10% etc, and so he’s on the ‘decline’ side as well as Knoche?
john hare
Dec 20 2018 at 4:44am
I have no problem with betting. I have a real problem about betting with the other party holding the money until it resolves.
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