ARNOLD KLING
August 14, 2011
The Top Political Contributors
August 11, 2011
Gender and the New Commanding Heights
August 11, 2011
Jamie Galbraith Makes an Assumption
August 11, 2011
Macroeconometrics: The Science of Hubris
August 10, 2011
Real and Nominal Bond Yields
BRYAN CAPLAN
August 14, 2011
The Effect of Thumb Sucking on Income
August 12, 2011
The Voice of Cold, Hard Truth to All Would-Be Educators
August 12, 2011
Ability, Morality, and Prosperity: A Paper and a Report
August 11, 2011
The Theory of Time and Frittering
August 10, 2011
Male Variance and the Remnants of the Gender Gap
DAVID HENDERSON
August 9, 2011
Hayek in "Unbroken", Part Two
August 8, 2011
Hayek in "Unbroken"
August 5, 2011
James Bovard on the Peace Corps
August 4, 2011
Summers Way Off on FDR and 1941
August 3, 2011
The "Amazon" Tax
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Bryan: I feel as if the pdf file nature of your papers makes them relatively difficult to make use of compared to if they were in plain text, and infinitely less usable than your nicely hyperlinked-up html (ie, the museum of communism). It seems like including a plain-text version of one's articles would be a rather simple matter, and would make them spider-able to google, easier to search for the interested reader, etc. ... and yet, i rarely encounter an easy-to-use version of an academic's research. so, like a good truth-seeker, I ask: what am I missing here?
(As I glance over your papers again, maybe it's the graphs and charts??)
*alcibiades:
Google has no problem spidering PDF files (and files in many other common formats). If you are still having problems with PDF, it may be your own computer equipment--recent PCs with recent browsers and free Acrobat Reader handle PDF very easily. Over 85% of readers will have broadband.
PDF not only preserves graphs and charts, but also makes good printing possible on a very wide range of printers. A web author posting PDFs gets many fewer complaints about "it didn't print right", in my (considerable) experience.