Benjamin N. Friedman, Industrial Evolution: “(…) Why do some countries have an economically helpful culture while others don’t? And, since no society got very far in economic terms before the Industrial Revolution, what caused the culture of the recently successful ones to change? In “A Farewell to Alms,” Gregory Clark, an economic historian at the [...]
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Gregory Clark: A Farewell to Alms. A Brief Economic History of the World.
December 10th, 2007
Tags: economics · evolution · gregory clark · history · industrial revolution
Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life
December 6th, 2007
The New York review of Books, The Wrecking Ball of Innovation: “Supercapitalism is Robert Reich’s account of the way we live now. Its story is familiar, its diagnosis superficial. But there are two reasons for paying attention to it. The author was President Clinton’s first secretary of labor. Reich emphasizes this connection, adding that “the [...]
Tags: capitalism · economics · robert reich
Security is a trade-off, just like anything else.
December 4th, 2007
Freakonomics, Bruce Schneier Blazes Through Your Questions: “Last week, we solicited your questions for Internet security guru Bruce Shneier. He responded in force, taking on nearly every question, and his answers are extraordinarily interesting, providing mandatory reading for anyone who uses a computer. He also plainly thinks like an economist: search below for “crime pays” [...]
Tags: bruce schneier · economics · freakonomics · security
Rolling Stone: How America Lost the War on Drugs
December 4th, 2007
Ben Wallace-Wells, How America Lost the War on Drugs: “The drug war, in the end, has been undone in no small part by the sweeping and inflexible nature of its own metaphor. At the beginning, in the days of Escobar, the campaign was a war as seen from the situation room, a complicated assault that [...]
Tags: colombia · crime · economics · latin america · mexico · usa · war on drugs
Het inkomen van de kunstenaar
November 26th, 2007
NRC, 900 euro per maand (bruto). Debat over kunstsubsidie het inkomen van de kunstenaar. “In 2002 schreef Abbing het boek Why are Artists Poor?, over de complexe relatie tussen kunst en geld. „Overal om mij heen zag ik kunstenaars die het niet bepaald breed hadden”, vertelt hij. „Het gemiddelde inkomen van de Nederlandse kunstenaar is [...]
Heleen Mees: De verzorgingsstaat verstikt migranten
November 25th, 2007
Heleen Mees, De verzorgingsstaat verstikt migranten: “Precies zoals White het meer dan een halve eeuw geleden voorspelde, vind je op steenworp afstand van mijn huis in New York een deli, een stomerij, een bakker, een Starbucks, een kledingmaker, een nagelstudio, een slijterij, een bloemenstalletje en een parkeerservice. De winkels zijn de hele week tot negen [...]
Tags: amsterdam · economics · heleen mees · new york · nl · politics
Dollar Auction
September 15th, 2007
Wikipedia: “The setup involves an auctioneer who volunteers to auction off a dollar bill with the following rule: the dollar goes to the highest bidder, who pays the amount he bids. The second-highest bidder also must pay the highest amount that he bid, but gets nothing in return.” Naar aanleiding van Lessons on the surge [...]
Tags: dollar auction · economics · game · iraq · usa
One-Fifth of an American: How much is an immigrant’s life worth, exactly?
June 13th, 2007
Slate: “Let’s do the math: (…)”
Tags: economics · immigration · usa