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Re: Hitler Was a Vegetarian, Pinochet Privatized Social Security, Satan Rides a Bicycle, and Other Irrelevancies

han — Wed, 15 Dec 2004 11:53:17 -0000

Dan Restrepo has worked on Western Hemisphere issues! He's worked with "issues"! He's a good person!

Re: Commuting and Consuming

han — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 15:14:45 -0000

I live in a small midwest university town, where I ended up because that's where I found a job teaching. I like to walk and walk a half hour to school five days a week. I would prefer being able to enjoy what a big city offers, but didn't find a job in one. Even if I did, at my current salary I couldn't afford to live in my own house in a decent neigborhood.

My consumption is just about optimal. (I can afford to visit big cities on those long academic vacations.) I'll accept a raise, though! PhD's in my field (one of worst paid in the Liberal Arts) make far less than in most others; in fact, the average local high school teacher's pay is the same as mine, and I've been working here almost 20 years.

Re: What’s the Frequency Lakoff?

han — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:56:10 -0000

According to "When morality opposes justice:
Conservatives have moral intuitions that liberals may not recognize" www.chicagocdr.org/papers/haidt%20paper.doc
"Most conservatives (with the exception of some economic conservatives) therefore embrace the ethics of community, and are morally opposed to the extreme individual freedom promoted by a pure ethics of autonomy...."

How about a little love for economic conservatives?

Re: The Oprahfication of Obama

han — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:26:17 -0000

The Story of O?

Re: Relax Like A Pro: 5 Steps to Hacking Your Sleep

han — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 19:32:36 -0000

I used to have onset insomnia. I don't know what I did, but now I've got the opposite: (Early Morning Waking?), often getting about six hours, which is not enough for me, and I can't nap unless I've got a bed in a quiet place.

Re: Why China Stagnated

han — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 18:45:22 -0000

I don't have access to the full article and I'm not an economist, but I find the idea of Chinese cultural arrogance as a factor uncompelling. For one thing, for much of China's history, the Chinese were arguably technologically much more advanced than other countries.

For those interested, consider other arguments in Mark Elvin's High-level Equilibrium Trap:

www-personal.umd.umich.edu/~delittle/elvin.pdf

Re: Why China Stagnated

han — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 05:15:04 -0000

Trumpit wrote:

>The original 13 colonies were primarily agricultural. I agree with Jefferson that they should have stayed that way.

I hope you don't use any of this new-fangled industrial revolution stuff.

>Chinese herbal remedies are a low cost way of successfully treating a host of maladies and afflictions. Why wasn't that included as part of Bush's expensive prescription drug plan? Corporate greed on the part of the pharmaceutical companies and cultural ignorance on the part of the American people are the obvious answers.

In fact, they are scientifically unproven.

Re: Witch Doctors, Cancer, and the Minimum Wage

han — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 13:06:55 -0000

A lot of misguided economic policy arises from the fact that many people want to show how sympathetic they are to the "downtrodden" or "disenfranchised". For people like that, it's about how kind a person they are (and how mean you are), and not really about economic policy, so it's difficult to reason with them.

Re: No End of Oil

han — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 12:16:09 -0000

I can't help but feel that this answers the concerns about "peak oil" the wrong way. OK, we won't run out of oil, but the pistachio metaphor means to me that it could get so expensive we might as well have run out.

Isn't the economist's point that by the time oil worth extracting is no longer available, investment/discovery in other power sources will make that irrelevant?

Re: Optimism Quickly Fading

han — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 06:07:32 -0000

Frank Langfitt's report Do Federal Moves Take Us Back To The New Deal? quotes Boudreaux and Tyler Cowen as well but doesn't identify the "prominent economist" who "now refers to the U.S. as 'the United Socialist State Republic of America.' And [who] refers to Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson as 'comrade.'"

Of course NPR's conclusion is that government's role is to restore faith in the financial markets.

Re: She Earned an F

han — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 05:31:43 -0000

Don, you're mean. You should show your empathy for your students just as Hillary shows hers for the poor. Damn the consequences.

Re: More on Aggregate Demand and Micro-level Coordination

han — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 04:15:17 -0000

I wouldn't use the word bubblicious in this context.

Re: Free Trade is Common

han — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 08:32:43 -0000

Locavores may yet put an end to free trade within the United States, by requiring consumers to eat local. And aren't communities who resist certain companies setting up shop (big cities vs. big box retailers) also engaging in protectionism?