Results for “markets in everything” 1878 found
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1. “Blaming the Republicans” is used as a false substitute for “rejecting the doctrine.” We can do both!
2. The Great Factor Price Equalization; in this framework I have been focusing on our inability to move U.S. labor up the value chain of production with new, complex ideas. You can discuss the causality in a number of different ways, such as putting more causal emphasis on how outsourcing has chipped away at the previous networks of production.
4. Markets in everything: snore absorption rooms.
5. Disputes over the size of Chinese debt.
6. Poor choice of words. And how can the now-expensive city of Budapest make that list?
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1. Emergency markets in everything.
2. The dolphin Solow residual.
3. How much is life expectancy expected to rise?
4. From the Levy and Peart Summer Institute, history of economic thought videos and papers.
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1. How to maximize the value of Larry Summers, and the interview is here.
2. This superhero cartoon spans many excellent themes.
3. The Age of the Infovore is now out in a Penguin India edition.
4. A crude look at some mortgage agency cumulative default rates.
5. Markets in everything, invisible art.
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1. What’s up with Incan khipus?
2. Italy vs. Japan, a good puzzle.
3. Do people mean what they say?
4. Markets in everything (beware: the link has a photo of a woman in a bikini).
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3. BdL: discount rate changes simply aren’t that powerful.
4. The rosy scenario for public works projects, by Virginia Postrel.
5. No markets in everything, Harry Potter edition.
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1. Vote winners for best conservative books.
2. Suicide bomber markets in everything.
3. Prince Twins Seven-Seven passes away.
4. People’s reasons for not having children.
5. Anthony Painter reviews TGS.
6. The largest holders of Greek debt.
7. Read the “Tree of Life” dialogue or better yet watch the Leo Kottke video. Here is my favorite Malick review so far; oddly I find New World to be his masterpiece.
The culture that is Sweden
Director Lotta Rajalin notes that Egalia places a special emphasis on fostering an environment tolerant of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people. From a bookcase, she pulls out a story about two male giraffes who are sad to be childless — until they come across an abandoned crocodile egg.
That’s a preschool, for children from ages one to six. The school does everything possible to obliterate traditional gender roles, including a refusal to use the words “him” and “her” (that is, their Swedish equivalents).
…she says that there’s a long waiting list for admission to Egalia, and that only one couple has pulled a child out of the school.
Jukka Korpi, 44, says he and his wife chose Egalia “to give our children all the possibilities based on who they are and not on their gender.”
There is even a markets in everything angle:
To even things out, many preschools have hired “gender pedagogues” to help staff identify language and behavior that risk reinforcing stereotypes.
For the pointer I thank Daniel Lippman.
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1. A superb blog post about something I do not care about.
2. How to hold down health care costs: more and better TV.
3. Is the American public becoming more libertarian?
4. Failed Kiwi markets in everything.
5. An ideological Turing test, Bryan is correct by a long mile.
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1. Workers’ share of U.S. national income, over time.
2. Neuroskeptic is now on Twitter.
3. How is Cass Sunstein doing?
4. Indian hangmen: thwarted markets in everything.
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The Spencer Scholarship plan
For months, Fitzsimmons gave each of the women $200 weekly, promised to pay for their college tuition, treated them to lavish nights on the town and even bought one a car as part of his so-called Spencer Scholarship Plan. They were spanked if they violated rules, such as failing to call Fitzsimmons or drinking too much alcohol…
The Spencer Plan started in the 1930s as a form of “carefully regulated corporal punishment” between husband and wife. Couples agreed to a list of things the wife needed to change, such as not spending money frivolously. If the rules were broken, the husband punished her by spanking and it was put behind them. It has expanded through the years.
One 21-year-old woman testified Thursday that the day she joined the program in November, Fitzsimmons spanked her and gave her $300. He paid for her to live in an oceanfront suite and gave her a $200 weekly allowance. In return, she was required to walk 20 blocks each day, keep a log of her meals and spending and refrain from drugs. When she didn’t, she was spanked.
Fitzsimmons took it further, she said, when on three occasions he sexually assaulted her with a curtain rod, a hairbrush and a horse riding crop. When asked by attorneys why she allowed it to happen, she replied: “I’m not allowed to tell him no.”
I can’t bring myself to file this one under “Markets in Everything,” though read the last line of the piece. For the pointer I thank DL.
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1. The wisdom of Garett Jones and Reihan Salam.
2. Are they raising a gender-free baby?
3. The story of economics, a three-minute video, via Tim Harford, quite good I thought and also pleasingly philosophical.
4. Thwarted markets in everything: Denmark bans Marmite.
5. Do medical patients have an excess status quo bias?
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1. An environmentalist perspective on The Great Stagnation.
2. A history of Christian rock.
3. Did the stimulus destroy jobs on net? (pdf)
4. The etymology of inflation, and also here.
5. Markets in everything: Barbara’s Bakery Peanut Butter Puffin Cereal.
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2. Public choice take on the Der Spiegel story on Greece possibly leaving the eurozone.
3. Markets in everything: “A Sicilian social movement is organizing trips that patronize only businesses that do not pay protection money to the Mafia.” (1/20) Higher chance of arson, for one thing.
5. Seatbelts and offsetting behavior, a counter-revisionist view.