1. The new Lars van Trier film is extreme.
2. John Nye: an economist walks into a bar, short podcast, direct link here.
3. There are seven years of health reform benefits, not ten.
4. Unusual hypotheses about John Milton.
5. Via Bamber, which is the most humane state? And would you rather lose the right to vote or the right to bear arms, state-by-state? Do note this is user-submitted data and not a random sample; here are more results.
It took some diging to find the Nye podcast. Direct link here
Apart from the self-selection issue, the guys at OKTrends have access to a very cool dataset.
What kind of hypotheses should we be testing?
Sigh, so much revisionist idiocy results from applying modern nonverbal signals to texts that have different nonverbal signals.
Or, was it when Megan McArdle started discussing Fluffy’s lack of coverage?
That last question about losing the right to vote : I wonder if the author meant that I would “personally” get to choose for myself as an individual, or whether I’d be choosing for the population as a whole. In other words, do I give up my personal right to vote or use guns – or am I choosing one or the other option for everyone? This is critical because the personal choice is dead obvious (your personal “right to vote” is nearly worthless in a country with so many voters) while the system-wide choice is much less clear.
Correction: “von Trier”, not “van Trier”.
Now this is some respectable left wing political economy. I wish the modern left was more capable of looking at the real government effect on the economy in this manner more often.
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