We held the Fantasy Intellectual Teams draft on Saturday. 10 owners competed. The owners came from the readership of this blog, and they themselves are not public figures in any way. The intellectuals they chose are shown below in the … Continue reading →
Tag: Tyler Cowen is my Favorite Blogger
Another idea for the intellectual space
The goals are to: Reward old-fashioned shoe-leather journalism. Find the next James Fallows, the next Chris Arnade, the next Sam Quinones. Reward people who serialize major projects on line, rather than going through the book process Reward people who engage … Continue reading →
The case against stimulating demand and restricting supply
The New York Times asks ten economists about the risks of “overheating.” I don’t go along with the mainstream macro paradigm, but several of the responses resonated with me, especially Olivier Blanchard’s. I shall plead Knightian uncertainty. I have no … Continue reading →
The case for stimulating demand and restricting supply
J. W. Mason writes, The fact that people like Lawrence Summers have been ignored in favor of progressives like Heather Boushey and Jared Bernstein, and deficit hawks like the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget have been left screeching irrelevantly … Continue reading →
COVID models still don’t work
David Wallace-Wells writes, Looking back, you could find a few lonely voices suggesting winter would be calmer than autumn. But the CDC aggregates and showcases 26 pedigreed models predicting the near-term course of the disease. On January 18, only two … Continue reading →
Organized resistance
1. Academic Freedom Alliance. Pointer from Tyler Cowen. The AFA seeks to counteract pressures on employers to take actions against employees whose views, statements, or teachings they may disapprove or dislike. We oppose such pressures from the government, college or … Continue reading →
Soon to be canceled?
Ross Douthat writes, Are we living through a decisive turn from a liberal culture to an authoritarian “successor ideology” (as conservatives and some liberals fear) or a long-awaited reckoning with white supremacy and and patriarchy and inequality (as many progressives … Continue reading →
Tyler (and Scott S.) vs. me on inflation
Tyler Cowen writes, To see why the huge increase in bank reserves did not result in inflation, consider that there has been a considerable decrease in U.S. excess bank reserves over the last five years. No one claims that this … Continue reading →
Is prestige a danger sign?
Paul Graham writes, the most important thing I learned, and which I used in both Viaweb and Y Combinator, is that the low end eats the high end: that it’s good to be the “entry level” option, even though that … Continue reading →
Cowen, Schumpeter, and employment fluctuations
Tyler Cowen writes, I take a finance perspective on the output gap. If you are at what others call “full employment,” you can indeed do better, or at least try to do better. Start 300 companies that aim to be … Continue reading →
