October 11, 2009
Britain's Central Planning Death Panels
October 11, 2009
Free Market M.D.
October 11, 2009
Economies of Scale in Compliance
October 11, 2009
Balan's Challenge
October 10, 2009
The Pleasure of Telling Others What to Do
October 10, 2009
Gonick the Great - and How He Could Have Been Greater
October 9, 2009
More Scott Sumner
October 9, 2009
Not From The Onion
October 9, 2009
Thoughts on a Second Stimulus
You'll be dissappointed I think to find he doesn't understand your point, unless he convinces you that some combination of the big five personality factors is equivalent to teachability.
Let me take a shot.
Masonomics believes the economy always reverts to the natural level of uncertainty.
I just started Spent, too, and I happened to think the other day, "This book would be better if Robin Hanson had written it."
Franklin Harris wrote, "This book would be better if Robin Hanson had written it."
I often think this when reading almost any book.
Alas he is only one man.
(At least, for now)
I am at the last chapter, Legalizing Freedom. I'm surprised that Robin Hanson didn't react more strongly to the naïve discussions of consumption taxes and of why GDP is inferior to indices that measure happiness and sustainability.
The last chapter reads like a psychologist talking about economics. His brief discussion of why we need to tax pineapples and bullets heavily, while not taxing universities (he ignores his own analysis of the signalling role of higher education) and iTunes downloads, is useless. It is best understood as a signal to his left-wing peers that he is--really!-- one of them, and that he can reach their conclusions through Ev. Psych.