- Quora Questions:
Who is the best living economist? Kenneth Arrow
Is the world becoming more evil? No we just get bad news faster - Top 200 most influential economics blogs. Krugman is #1. Marginal Revolution is #5. Econlog is #12. Cognitive Strain hit 201st so didn’t appear on the list.
- Bryan Caplan disputes Noam Chomsky over whether corporations are totalitarian. In a nutshell, “Totalitarian governments try to control everything you do because they care about everything you do. Partialtarian corporations leave you alone because they only care about your money.”
- Here is some more of Bryan Caplan on what a good student looks like. 1) Wants to learn 2) Resists forgetting after exam 3) Tries to apply what they learned in life 4) Puts truth first, particularly over taboos and cultural biases.
- A classic from Matthew Yglesias, The Kind of Liberal I’m Not
- Tyler Cowen’s Ted Talk on his mistrust of stories is one of my favorites.
