Robert's Stochastic thoughts

"If non-bureaucratic mechanisms like markets or decentralized experimentation could achieve the same or better results at less cost an...

We are now well into the second Onion decade.  The Onion demonstrates that social science has actual predictive power.  In 2008 they predict...

On Ed Kilgore's thoughts on Pieter Beinart. He wrote he mentions both the  Washington Monthly  and the  New Republic  (which he...

Cuccinelli has few admirers among commonwealth voters. Fifty-four percent said they have an unfavorable opinion of the Republican compared ...

Ryan Avent has some fun with Graeber.   Click for the article but here is a summary. Graeber " The ruling class has figured out that...

Is there a Craig who own's Craig's list ? This is an honest question.   If so,  why isn't he very rich ?   Classified ads were...

"Ricardo offers us the supreme intellectual achievement, unattainable by weaker spirits, of adopting a hypothetical world remote from...

David Glasner is perplexed by something Keynes wrote in The General Theory.  My main impression is that Keynes is quibbling with Fisher, be...

David Glasner argues that Milton Friedman was too a closet Keynesian.  He generally criticizes Friedman but, to be sure, makes some concess...

Noah Smith notes that the status of theory within economics has declined dramatically.  He gives the credit to psychologists. Krugman has ...

Is it possibile that the stupidist think ever written on the internet has been found ? Is there leak stupid .  Mix ing. Metaphor is there a ...

I coulda been rich if I had thought of this 250 years ago. There once was the problem of measuring longitude which attracted the attention...

Kudos to Michael Birnbaum who writes it as it was in the sometimes Ballanced Washington Post "raising fears of further violence afte...

Minesweeper in the Washington Post. “It’s like Minesweeper,” former Wyden staffer Jennifer Hoelzer  told The Washington Post’s Ezra Klein ...

Krugman Katz Horatio Alger William Julius Wilson moving to Opportunity Horatia Alger and Sprawl Krugman has a fascinating post noting how ...

Julio  said in reply to Darryl FKA Ron ... From the We Need That Word dept: deceipt(n.): a piece of paper given to you by a corporation,...

My Dad's Photos. Now on Flikr For example

Uh oh. Please click this link to read it here. Antonio Fatas wrote Show me the model Most of the commentary one reads these days about ...

"To remove a man who has committed no misdemeanour from the parish where he chuses to reside, is an evident violation of natural libert...

Click this link or else bears will be angry. I think this quote makes it clear that the rational expectations revolution was based on fr...