1. Offered here, strike the word "often."
2. The Economist reviews Bryan Caplan
3. Amity Shlaes, The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression
4. Saletan on science is especially interesting this morning
5. Prophets of the MarginalRevolution
6. Memories of Richard Rorty, including from Brian Eno. Here are many more Rorty links.
I am going to have to disagree with the use of “On “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?†, another quiz show, the answer most popular with the studio audience is correct 91% of the time† as an argument for his cause. Of all the lifelines used, the ‘ask the audience’ feature is more often than not the first one used, so obviously the questions are easier to answer. If the ‘ask the audience’ lifeline was used as the last remaining lifeline, and thus a harder question, I doubt 91% of the time the audience would be correct.
Sailer asked an interesting question. There’s not a lot of money in it (I guess ads bring in some money), and my guess is that even at GMU, where blogging is so popular, it counts very little for tenure and promotion. Sounds like irrational behavior to me!
Jack,
Grow up; its their house so they make the rules. But if you don’t
like visiting their house (blog), visit another house. My perspective
is that these guys are as much interested in “truth” as Levitt or anyone
else.
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