1. A most diverting and interesting web site. You can find the current wind direction and speed for any place on earth.
2. A paper is retracted even before it was published. Not because it was wrong, but because it was upsetting. And then an update.
3. I'm lost. Is this real, or just a highly apt metaphor?
4. "Even" progressive academics? I'm amazed that anyone is taken in.
5. The markets/state dichotomy is bad social science, and even worse rhetoric for our side.
6. Good lord: "Does the reification of objectivity and detachment in the discipline serve to reinforce status hierarchies more than produce sound science?" This is not from the English Dept. It's from an actual social scientist (well, a sociologist; but c'mon). For the record, the answer to the question in quotes is "no."
7. The fact that the officer was yelling "Let me in!" makes it seem less likely that she was confused about which apartment she was entering. Still, a strange incident, all around.
8. Manhattan boat evacuation on 9-11-01 was the largest boatlift in history.
9. Wow. Venezuela currently holds the record for self-inflicting de-development, abandoning both prosperity and democracy. But Turkey appears to want to give them a run for their money.
10. Once again, Cass Sunstein reveals that he favors soft fascism, with his technoclerics in charge, over democracy.
11. Amazon sells reductions in transaction costs for consumers. The result is affecting real estate prices for warehouses.
12. The threat of "genius" in architecture.
13. Good Lord. It's like I don't even KNOW you people. Best Mexican Restaurant: TB
14. Fall....in the South.
15. The NATION, on the "Inequality Industry." Interesting take, from a source I rarely read.
16. State fought the cash. And the cash won.
17. Quite a bit of stuff here on the 10th anniversary of Lehman Bros. Some of it is right, but not all of it.
18. Drew Millard on Trump and Florence....
19. Evidence on the supply side of the gender wage gap.
20. Nice data visualization of US federal budget, since 1963.
21. On price-gouging. Courtesy of Florence.
22. Revolving doors and regulatory capture.
23. The real cost of rent-seeking.
24. In the People's Republic of Carrboro, there is a rational person. His name is David Mabe.
25. Just a few years ago, a number of people on the left were talking about how Venezuela was a model for development in the region, precisely BECAUSE it was "real socialism." Now, it is not real socialism, and never was. It would be funny, if it weren't so not funny.
26. Skippy Squirrelbane is ready to suit up and get back in the game. He's old. But New England needs him and his talents. Here is Skippy on the phone, talking to Squirrel Headquarters: "I have a very particular set of skillls...."
27. My review of Philippe Van Parijs and Yannick Vanderborght's book, BASIC INCOME.
Grand Lagniappe: the stores don't run out of EVERYTHING, as a hurricane approaches
2 comments:
Steven Pinker's latest used the phrase "High Modernist Authoritarianism," which might be a more polite way of saying "soft fascism." It's about Rule By Wise Experts, either way.
Do you believe the Wilkinson/Farb rebuttal? (That they argued against the math and science and in favor of rebuttals? Seems like posting the alleged email thread would clear that up. Have they done so? I did enjoy how they threw the NYMJ under the bus (not properly vetting an article before it was approved?!))
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