Eight Great Myths of Recycling. Daniel Benjamin (Clemson Univ.)
Why Do Intellectuals Oppose Capitalism? R Nozick
Charles Chu. “Consumerism’s Dirty Little Secret: Are We Buying All the Wrong Things?” Great review of Geoffrey Miller’s “Spent: Sex, Evolution and Consumer Behavior evolutionary psychologist.” The Polymath Project.
The Hydration Scam. Adam Ruins Everything
Can Planet Earth Feed 10 Billion People? Humanity has 30 years to find out. Charles Mann. The Atlantic (Mar ’18)
Observatory of Economic Complexity (Interesting visuals of trade)
Regulation: A Primer. Susan Dudley & Jerry Brito (Mercatus)
For you budding lawyers (how to market your law firm: Texas Law Hawk)
Get your grammar right (AR Attorney General Rejects Proposal)
Country Comparisons (Demographic etc.)
Matt Ridley: ‘Fossil fuels will save the world’ and Biofuels Could Devastate Environment
Economics students ‘are most promiscuous’
A Lack Of Rigor Leaves Students ‘Adrift’ In College, NPR
Why are the Critics so Convinced that Globalization is Bad for the Poor? Emma Aisbett
The battle for brainpower. The Economist, 2006.
Utopia under President Bernie!! or…. maybe not??
Some economics of $1.89 sandels (Mike Munger)
Salaries and MBAs (Pindyck/Rubinfeld from Financial Times)
My Unhappy Life as a Climate Heretic (R. Pielke, WSJ, Dec ’16)
Human Progress (indicators), CATO.
What is “Social Justice?” Prager U.
“Certificates of Necessity.” George Will, WashPo. & “Certs of Public Convenience”
Lots of Smart Stuff from Mark Perry at AEI.
Free Trade: Who’s it Good for? D. McCloskey, Learn Liberty
Why the Central Valley Votes More Conservative. Victor Davis Hanson.
American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and Arthur Brooks.
Property and Environment Research Center (PERC)
Allocating Capital: Markets or Government (Certell)
What the future of work will mean for jobs, skills, and wages (McKinsey Report)
Fundamental physics is frustrating physicists (Economics isn’t the only discipline with disagreement in ranks!) Economist, Jan ’18.
24 life skills every adult should master before turning 30.Shana Lebowitz. The Ladders.
A Fast-Food Problem: Where Have All the Teenagers Gone? NYT.
Skating on Thin Ice. National Geographic
‘Automating Inequality’: Algorithms In Public Services Often Fail The Most Vulnerable. NPR. see also Allegheny Family Screening Tool.
The End of Theoretical Physics As We Know It (S. Hossenfelder, QuantaMagazine)