This paper, via Jorge, argues that a credit crunch, and an increase in contract non-enforceability, are major reasons why NAFTA did not benefit Mexico more. Each Beck album takes a longer time to appreciate than the last one; I’m finally coming around on The Information. Here is a further smackdown on the TV-autism study. Panama has voted to expand the Canal; after the Grand Canyon and Iguassu, it is the most impressive sight I have seen. Go. A New York Times article notes that Portuguese has 230 million speakers, far more than German or Japanese; yet it is still considered a minor language. Will Wilkinson, who has been busy lately, has a good post on positive-sum status games. The Wall Street Journal had a front page article today on the trend to pull the elderly out of nursing homes and pay their relatives, or in some cases their ex-wives, to care for them. The Business of Health and The Cure: How Capitalism Can Save American Health Care are two new market-oriented books on American health care; the latter has a blurb from Milton Friedman. Chutes and Ladders examines the upward mobility of (some of) the working poor; buy it here. Starbucks succeeds by helping customers feel good about themselves.
I like Guero more than The Information, but perhaps I just need to follwo your advice and give it a few more listens.
Isn’t Will’s post there just a cross-post from D Friedman’s excellent blog?
http://daviddfriedman.blogspot.com/
Of course Portuguese is considered a minor language. Almost all the speakers are concentrated in Portugal, Brazil, Angola, and Mozambique. Three of these countries have never had any international influence, and Portugal hasn’t had serious international influence in more than 100 years. There are few, if any, important works of literature, science, or philosophy written in Portuguese.
By contrast, Japan is the world’s second largest economy and a powerhouse of industry and innovation. Before that, the Japanese were the regional superpower of East Asia, and had been for centuries. The German civilisation has been the dominant power in Central Europe for 1500 years and was the focus of the world’s (negative) attention twice in the past hundred years. Moreover, many great works of science and philosophy were written in German.
- Josh
Who do you think you are, Colby Cosh?
The ‘smackdown’ ain’t. Sure, the paper’s identification strategy is indirect, but the fact that you get similar results using cable subscriptions or precipitation is pretty convincing. And the geneticists seem to be saying “A affects B, so it’s impossible that C also affects B.”
Will Wilkinson, who has been busy lately, has a good post on positive-sum status games.
Will Wilkinson is an excellent human being and there should be more like him.
As soon as we can find a sturdy, fecund, and suitably disposed lady who satisfies WW’s discriminating tastes, the blogosphere should endeavor to collect funds to lavishly subsidize the prodigious reproductive efforts he is certain to undertake.
It would be interesting to see Gross Linguistic Product statistics. It might be hard to define – how much of India’s GDP comes from business conducted in English? (How much of the U.S.’s comes from business conducted in Spanish?)
I’d be willing to bet that other than Greek and Latin, the major/minor language gap would track some position in the GLP rankings.
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