My hilarious global warming exchange with Ruffin and Gregory
In November 2000 I received a complimentary copy of a new microeconomics textbook by two professors at the University of Houston. The book's treatment of [...]
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One Absentee Ballot Could Break Up a Longstanding Team Steve Landsburg gives me one point but doesn't end up taking my side with Superfreakonomics. He [...]
About my Reed (undergrad) thesis
As an undergrad math major I wrote a senior thesis called "The Abelian Group Structure on Elliptic Curves Saved My Life!" Sadly, I no longer [...]
2nd Lakeside exam W/Th Nov 4/5
Here's what the exam will cover (and sample problems from each chapter of the online micro book): Ch 6: Cake cutting (Look at some or [...]
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Efficient Market Theory and the Crisis Thoughts on Health Care Reform Steve Levitt on the Daily Show Microchips and Monopolies Focus of Gay-Marriage Fight Is [...]
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Big Cellphone Makers Shifting to Android System Energy Dept. Aid for Scientists on the Edge. If I had to pick someone to dole out R&D [...]
Tragedy of the Commons R.I.P.? Not quite.
Congratulating Elinor Ostrom for winning the Nobel Prize is terrific, but please don't get carried away like Jay Walljasper, who writes Tragedy of the Commons, [...]
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Matthew Yglesias writes about me nicely... sort of. Weekend Opinionator: Are Americans Cooling on Global Warming? The SuperFreakonomics Global-Warming Fact Quiz Book Publishers Face the [...]
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UW student David Corrado in the news for the UW Climate Action Plan. Concussion Trauma Risk Seen in Amateur Athlete, following up on a scary [...]
I agree with George Will!
Not about everything, of course, but we do both agree that mandatory recycling laws are mostly pointless (so much for my chances of ever being [...]