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Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Nate Seegert hits a pre-job-market home run as his job market paper is cited on both Marginal Revolution and Ezra Klein's blog at the WaPo.Congrats to Nate, whose job market paper I quite like as well.We have other great candidates too .... seven of them with letters from yours truly.Hat tip: Jessica Goldb...
This may be the worst game Washington has played all year. Unlike LSU and Oregon, Arizona is good but not great. The Huskies should have been close, if not the winners. And yet they got blown out, in large part due to their own mistakes.This one actually has caused some grumbling in Seattle, as Jerry Brewer describes in his colu...
Sunday, October 21, 2012
The NYT offers this thoughtful piece on the video that, for a few days, was the cause of the raid on the US embassy compound in Libya and on the broader issues it raises.It seems to me that we are repeating the same error we made during the Cold War. Liberalism, in the broad sense, is a vastly superior product to communism. That case could have been, and should have been, made without apology. Liberalism is also a far better product than theocracy, whether Christian or Muslim or otherwise. That case, too, can and should be made without apology...
Saturday, October 20, 2012
There is surely a paper topic in this piece from the Daily Mail (and not just for Jeremy Greenwood).When will the blue team propose heavy taxes on labor-saving household appliances as part of the battle against obesity? I am not holding my breath but I do wonder why is this any different than sugary drinks.Hat tip: Charlie Br...
I started this a long time ago:Obama's remark that business people did not build their businesses has occasioned one of the odder bouts of internet discussion I can ever recall. It is not silly in the way the week we spent debating whether it was worse to put your sick dog on top of your car or to actually eat dogs was silly, but it is silly nonetheless, because everyone knows that creators are special, and everyone also knows that creators being able to create depends on many factors that are "produced" at a social level. Some of those factors...
"Ocularcentric Labour: 'You Don’t Do this for Money'" Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations, Vol. 67, No. 3, 2012JENNIFER SAPPEY, Charles Sturt UniversityEmail: jsappey@csu.edu.auGLENDA MACONACHIE, Queensland University of Technology - School of ManagementEmail: g.maconachie@qut.edu.auThis article is a response to Lansbury’s call (2009) in this journal for a reconceptualization of work and employment. It supports Lansbury’s belief that the employment relationship cannot be understood in isolation from wider social change. Building...
Friday, October 19, 2012
Sunday, October 14, 2012
This is hilarious, and very much on point. I have managed to find a GP who will actually respond to emails (thanks, Gary) but he really doesn't like it. The discussion I had with my dermatologist about using email was hilarious at some level (his office doesn't "trust" email, whatever that might mean) but ultimately fruitless as well.Hat tip: Ken Troske, who got it from John Cochr...
Friday, October 12, 2012
The NYT review sums it up well:"Butter” alternates between looking down its nose at Midwestern passions and cooing over smugly liberal values." Needless to say, this played well with the Ann Arbor audience last night at the Michigan Theater. There was even a bit of misplaced applause at the end. Still, it is well-acted enough, and funny enough at times, that I am glad to have seen it.The high point of the evening was listening to a loud fellow-movie goer afterwards in the lobby talking about how she thought the movie featured Jennifer...
Monday, October 8, 2012
Sunday, October 7, 2012
Today is ECONJEFF's 50th birthday. However did this happen?Also celebrating their birthday today (among others): my college roommate Ian Challis, my graduate school friend Sheilagh Ogilvie (when are you coming to UM for a seminar?) and my wonderful (she really is) mother-in-law!My deep thought for the day: life goes by quickly, so pay attenti...
Purdue looked like the worst team Michigan has played all year, which surprised me, and made for a pretty boring game. Still, Michigan can use the win and it was a chance for the players to get out some of their frustrations from the losses against Alabama and Notre Dame.I spent a lot of time watching the much more exciting Stanford-Arizona game.Next week: likely another blowout, this time against Illinois 3:30 on A...
This is something that has puzzled me since grade school days: can there be anything less appropriate in the land of the free than to press children to engage in ritual toadying to the state every day?Shame on you, Rick Snyder. This was a missed opportunity for some leadership and a very teachable mome...
If two grocery store chains were planning to merge and rented a couple of state legislators to introduce a bill that would prevent the opening of new grocery stores in their areas while they completed their merger, people would either laugh or scream or both.Why isn't the reaction the same when it is two public school distric...
Friday, October 5, 2012
The Daily Mail (of course) has the shocking story of the blue team state senate candidate in Maine who spends her free time as a "level 85 orc assassin rogue" on World of Warcraft.Maybe I'm different (okay, for sure I am) but to me this means 10,000 bonus points for Ms. Lachowicz.Hat tip - it almost goes without saying - Charlie Br...
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