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2. New Ed Glaeser book on housing policy; free and on-line.
3. Why does a Senator’s seat solicit a bid of only $500K?
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“Can dogs feel envy?” – Libertarians don’t think even humans can feel envy. It isn’t logical.
As my husband said when we heard about it on NPR, anyone who felt the need to scientifically study whether dogs feel envy or not has not owned 2+ dogs before. It is incredibly obvious that they can be jealous of one another.
For the Senator’s seat, those in the best position to actually assume the seat, i.e. public servants, probably can’t really pay that much. And getting that much would require involving lots of people.
I found this on page 73 of Ed Glaeser’s book interesting:
Especially considering how some have claimed the Phoenix’s bubble disproved the hypothesis of land-use controls contributing to the housing bubble.
I wish Glaeser’s book wasn’t published by the AEI. A lot of people who really should take Glaeser’s work to heart will be less likely to do so because of that association.
As my husband said when we heard about it on NPR, anyone who felt the need to scientifically study whether dogs feel envy or not has not owned 2+ dogs before. It is incredibly obvious that they can be jealous of one another.
Although whether “envy” is the same as (instinctual?) alpha dog traits is open to question.
Used to have 2 dogs (both males, same breed), and the one I thought was the alpha (2 months older and a bit bigger and stronger) of the 2 seemed to be getting pushed around by the beta much of the time.
I realized that the alpha was just being “tolerant” and “patient”, because every now and then he would seem to lose patience and smack the beta around for a few minutes. After a day or two of lying low the beta was back to pushing the alpha around for 3 to 5 days. Then smack down was repeated. And the cycle started again.
What most everyone who has trained a dog knows is that the dog can not be the alpha animal in the house. The dog must be lower in rank than all the humans, or you will have problems living with the dog.
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