. --Posted by Tyler Cowen to The Volokh Conspiracy at 6/25/2003 05:46:07 AMPowered by Blogger Pro
restaurant, not even in Mexico. Granny cooking. --Posted by Tyler Cowen to The Volokh Conspiracy at 6/25/2003 11:59:44 AMPowered by Blogger Pro
t is on my home page, click on my name to the left. --Posted by Tyler Cowen to The Volokh Conspiracy at 6/26/2003 01:58:30 PMPowered by Blogger Pro
ulated people" are at all real. Say they are. Then what?
Some of you may recognize antecedents of this idea in medieval theology, which at times suggested we were all simulations in the mind of God.
See hanson.gmu.edu for more on this. --Posted by Tyler Cowen to The Volokh Conspiracy a
, but too stuffy for my taste. --Posted by Tyler Cowen to The Volokh Conspiracy at 7/7/2003 11:30:43 AMPowered by Blogger Pro
for the economics journal Public Choice, is now on my home page (click on Tyler, in the list of names to the left, to get there). Comments and criticism always welcome. --Posted by Tyler Cowen to The Volokh Conspiracy at 7/8/2003 12:49:16 PMPowered by Blogger Pro
more effectively than other people can? Is the philanthropist simply finding a socially acceptable way of being a paternalist? Should he get out the matches instead? --Posted by Tyler Cowen to The Volokh Conspiracy at 7/8/2003 07:11:56 PMPowered by Blogger Pro
like what they hear. They then think the following: why should we respect a business model that makes money only by tricking us and selling us lemons? Isn't it enough if I buy the ones I like?
What do you all think? I would welcome hearing your views on this question. --Posted by Tyler Cowen to The Volok
megalomaniacal.
--Posted by Tyler Cowen to The Volokh Conspiracy at 7/13/2003 02:24:36 PMPowered by Blogger Pro
aw and economics scholars. --Posted by Tyler Cowen to The Volokh Conspiracy at 7/14/2003 07:12:02 PMPowered by Blogger Pro
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Too anecdotal for my tastes, but still a scary book. No wonder countries with national health insurance, and rationing, still can be pretty healthy. --Posted by Tyler Cowen to The Volokh Conspiracy at 7/14/2003 07:15:15 PMPowered by Blogger Pro
truly excellent books, you learn so many incidental facts along the way, such as how the Aztecs thought about battle, why Alexander the Great was like Hitler, and just how much Europe later drew from the Greeks. --Posted by Tyler Cowen to The Volokh Conspiracy at 7/14/2003 07:18:03 PMPowered
-deceivers.
Any thoughts? --Posted by Tyler Cowen to The Volokh Conspiracy at 7/15/2003 03:04:57 PMPowered by Blogger Pro
The best defense I ever heard of communism (not saying much!) is the following: it was easy to live under. If (when) you failed, you always knew it was not your fault. A true meritocracy is tougher in this regard (note that affirmative action may benefit some whites, for this reason). --P
from Houston, then through central Louisiana, and then through to Natchez, Mississippi. I am very excited about this trip, but won't get to blog for a while. --Posted by Tyler Cowen to The Volokh Conspiracy at 7/17/2003 07:36:35 AMPowered by Blogger Pro
range to him, within a year, and get THE story every time, is a journalist for the ages."
If only Gunther had had a blog. I like the South America book as well. --Posted by Tyler Cowen to The Volokh Conspiracy at 7/17/2003 08:14:25 AMPowered by Blogger Pro
"do not send" lists, the rate of response does not fall.
Plus none of you can explain why the telemarketing industry opposed the reform, if the people on the "do not call" list don't want to buy stuff and are just a waste of time and money. --Posted by Tyler Cowen to The Volokh Co
: if there is something you would like to read about, let me know. I can't promise to have anything to say, or get to it soon, but I am curious to know more about the audience and what it wants. --Posted by Tyler Cowen to The Volokh Conspiracy at 7/23/2003 04:39:47 PMPowered by Blogger Pro
academic work, his role simply appears less pathbreaking as time passes. --Posted by Tyler Cowen to The Volokh Conspiracy at 7/24/2003 05:52:46 AMPowered by Blogger Pro
if Richard, the consummate lawyer, is aware how revolutionary he is in this regard. The idea of reducing much of philosophy to law is shocking, if you think about it (well, it is shocking for us non-lawyers!), and it is one reason why he outrages some of his readers. --Posted by Tyler Cowen
(and conceptual) questions about gender, identity, and informed consent. --Posted by Tyler Cowen to The Volokh Conspiracy at 7/27/2003 12:35:04 PMPowered by Blogger Pro
to do that, so we are pretty lucky.
My apologies to the specialists, and please note I am using M2 as a proxy for all broader measures of money. --Posted by Tyler Cowen to The Volokh Conspiracy at 7/28/2003 10:26:46 AMPowered by Blogger Pro
The new telemarketing do not call list will exempt...you guessed it...politicians. They can still call you. The link is http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,93091,00.html. --Posted by Tyler Cowen to The Volokh Conspiracy at 7/28/2003 10:53:33 AMPowered by Blogger Pro
shed the post of laureate. Baraka points out that he has yet to be paid."
He has since sued the state of New Jersey.
--Posted by Tyler Cowen to The Volokh Conspiracy at 7/28/2003 04:06:45 PMPowered by Blogger Pro
mend Fischer Black's Exploring General Equilibrium, plus there is my own Risk and Business Cycles.
--Posted by Tyler Cowen to The Volokh Conspiracy at 7/29/2003 04:52:14 AMPowered by Blogger Pro
. --Posted by Tyler Cowen to The Volokh Conspiracy at 7/29/2003 05:01:10 AMPowered by Blogger Pro
Today's Slate has an excellent article on other ways to bet legally, such as on Hollywood movies.
And now you can bet on the success of various blogs, albeit with funny money. I don't have to tell you which to bet on, do I? --Posted by Tyler Cowen to The Volokh Conspiracy at 7/30/2003 07:35:01
developing nations, but I can see how someone might come to the opposite conclusion. --Posted by Tyler Cowen to The Volokh Conspiracy at 7/30/2003 10:12:27 AMPowered by Blogger Pro
Apparently so, according to Michael Tomasky, as reported by Slate. An alternative interpretation is that everyone is dogmatic, but that Democratic administrations waffle more on the content of policy, and thus receive a more mixed reaction from their journalistic allies. --Posted by Tyler Cowen
is no angel, the arrest is politically motivated, one group of thugs trying to take over the assets of others. And apparently Khodorkovsky was wanting to bankroll liberal, pro-Western opposition to Putin. Since then the Russian stock market has fallen fifteen percent. --Posted by Tyler Cowen
far behind in trying to understand the world.
I hope to write about the North Korea "game" soon.
In the meantime, if it is any consolation, primitive warfare was a scary business too. --Posted by Tyler Cowen to The Volokh Conspiracy at 8/8/2003 03:45:39 AMPowered by Blogger Pro
. For a summary of the book, read this. --Posted by Tyler Cowen to The Volokh Conspiracy at 8/9/2003 12:09:28 AMPowered by Blogger Pro
figure out what this means for the laws of war, not to mention liability issues. --Posted by Tyler Cowen to The Volokh Conspiracy at 8/12/2003 08:25:32 AMPowered by Blogger Pro
rong in my opinion, seeing this one made me chuckle, now he is getting some days of over 10,000.
--Posted by Tyler Cowen to The Volokh Conspiracy at 8/5/2003 09:17:11 AMPowered by Blogger Pro
can't live without buying music, well there are always used CDs. The site also has useful information on copyright issues, no matter what your point of view. --Posted by Tyler Cowen to The Volokh Conspiracy at 8/14/2003 06:07:23 AMPowered by Blogger Pro
his attack on the Bush dividend tax cut. --Posted by Tyler Cowen to The Volokh Conspiracy at 8/14/2003 05:52:13 AMPowered by Blogger Pro
to, musically, in 1350? Or just think of how good Pygmy music has been in the twentieth century. So even if we don't find older non-Western achievements written up in the history books, we should not discount their power and import.
--Posted by Tyler Cowen to The Volokh Conspiracy at 8/11/2003 06:01:26
in this stuff, no matter what they tell you. The notion of "Granger-causality," for instance, tells you to look at which variable moved temporally first. Here is one very critical view, but still I vote yes.
--Posted by Tyler Cowen to The Volokh Conspiracy at 8/13/2003 11:18:06 AMPowered by Blogger Pro
t the Irish conflict would never be solved.
I asked one West Belfast cabbie if he thought the peace would last. He said resignedly: "Yeah, people are gettin' too used to it."
--Posted by Tyler Cowen to The Volokh Conspiracy at 8/13/2003 10:25:33 AMPowered by Blogger Pro
. Second, for the rest of your life you can tell your Canadian friends that only Ottawa seems to have had significant looting.
--Posted by Tyler Cowen to The Volokh Conspiracy at 8/16/2003 10:14:29 AMPowered by Blogger Pro
rong, and employment declines, this is a sign that productivity per worker is high. --Posted by Tyler Cowen to The Volokh Conspiracy at 8/18/2003 07:00:24 AMPowered by Blogger Pro
This article tells you how Canadian supply will stymy the RIAA strategy to stop music downloads, apparently the practice is legal under Canadian law. --Posted by Tyler Cowen to The Volokh Conspiracy at 8/18/2003 04:03:04 PMPowered by Blogger Pro
the government-run companies play things as safe as possible.
I've done much searching and come up with little (I don't read Hebrew, for a start), if you know more please post me. --Posted by Tyler Cowen to The Volokh Conspiracy at 8/20/2003 05:34:13 AMPowered by Blogger Pro
The Winter Queen, by Boris Akunin. Fun and charming, and more conceptual than most mysteries. For better or worse, this is where Russian literature seems to be heading. --Posted by Tyler Cowen to The Volokh Conspiracy at 8/20/2003 01:43:28 PMPowered by Blogger Pro
is pointer to the work is a good sign. The Boston Globe on-line has a useful article on the book as well. --Posted by Tyler Cowen to The Volokh Conspiracy at 8/21/2003 05:36:20 AMPowered by Blogger Pro
we devote too little attention to the question of why people purchase deliberate untruths, which is important for understanding politics. Furthermore why do truths and untruths come packaged the way they do? And most of all, what will happen with the Lakers? --Posted by Tyler Cowen to The Volokh Conspirac
This piece, taken from techcentralstation.com, is aimed explicitly at libertarians. Radley Balko argues that the lists are not constitutional, restrictive of beneficial commerce, and not as good as market solutions to the overcalling problem. --Posted by Tyler Cowen to The Volokh Conspiracy at 8
Especially in sub-Saharan Africa. A Pew Center study surveyed the attitudes of the world's poor. 75 percent of the surveyed households in sub-Saharan Africa think that multinationals are good for their countries. The rich countries are most skeptical about the whole process. --Posted by Tyler
e one that seems most relevant today. --Posted by Tyler Cowen to The Volokh Conspiracy at 8/24/2003 04:48:20 AMPowered by Blogger Pro
earn again that the reality of the "rule of law" may be very different from the theory. Not surprisingly, former French colonies are among the biggest offenders. --Posted by Tyler Cowen to The Volokh Conspiracy at 8/26/2003 04:20:14 AMPowered by Blogger Pro
he following shocker: "...the administration, for its part, has yet to budget anything for war-related costs in 2004 and thereafter..." --Posted by Tyler Cowen to The Volokh Conspiracy at 8/27/2003 05:01:31 AMPowered by Blogger Pro
in the article: right now Iraqi media are blossoming, but most of it will end quickly unless advertising revenue can be generated. The U.S. authorities are drawing up a code of permissible conduct (no hate speech, for instance), but no one knows exactly what the code will say. --Posted by Tyler Cowen
to be so pro-Palestinian, surely they would not mind taking in their fair share or perhaps the whole lot. --Posted by Tyler Cowen to The Volokh Conspiracy at 8/27/2003 01:43:47 PMPowered by Blogger Pro
sturbing.
Alan Greenspan, NY"
From Jerome Tuccille's new Alan Shrugged. --Posted by Tyler Cowen to The Volokh Conspiracy at 8/28/2003 05:38:36 AMPowered by Blogger Pro
a running analysis of these questions. --Posted by Tyler Cowen to The Volokh Conspiracy at 8/28/2003 02:58:28 PMPowered by Blogger Pro
Here is an interesting article on how, when so many Internet sites have failed, The Onion makes money. --Posted by Tyler Cowen to The Volokh Conspiracy at 8/30/2003 05:52:50 AMPowered by Blogger Pro
(Levine). You can't leave off Mozart's Don Giovanni (Mitropoulous or Colin Davis).
Finally, Moses and Aaron is an opera to love even if you don't usually warm to Schoenberg, buy the second Boulez recording. --Posted by Tyler Cowen to The Volokh Conspiracy at 8/31/2003 05:42:30 AMPowered by Blogger Pro
ve stopped receiving Korean spam, which I used to get every night). Whether Korean spammers will adapt, however, remains to be seen. And the article notes that South Korea has no free speech amendment in its constitution, which makes the law easier to uphold.
--Posted by Tyler Cowen to The Volokh
for falsely reporting earnings. --Posted by Tyler Cowen to The Volokh Conspiracy at 9/3/2003 07:21:44 AMPowered by Blogger Pro
Jail Bait is the lesser-known gem on the disc. It doesn't matter if you already own these cuts, you will rediscover them and enjoy the new presentation.
For an excellent collection of electronic music, an area with brilliant but scattered contributions, see The Orb's Back to Mine. --Posted by Tyler
will be unique, be it at this blog or the other.
I offer my thanks again to Eugene for introducing me to blogging. In a recent interview (I will let you know when it is on-line) I described him as a "force of nature," an understatement if there ever was one. --Posted by Tyler Cowen to
may help us diminish the size of the puzzle.
--Posted by Tyler Cowen to The Volokh Conspiracy at 9/8/2003 11:10:01 AMPowered by Blogger Pro
Here is Will Baude's recent interview with me. I talk about Eugene, The Volokh Conspiracy, the future of blogging, my new blog, the differences between lawyers and economists, Mexican art, ethnic food, favorite recent novels, and many other matters. --Posted by Tyler Cowen to The Volokh
Read Michael Williams on the practices of some Los Angeles theaters. --Posted by Tyler Cowen to The Volokh Conspiracy at 9/8/2003 06:50:23 PMPowered by Blogger Pro
I picked this up from Cronaca, one of my favorite blogs. At first glance the blog subject is archaeology but they are consistently smart and interesting on many topics. --Posted by Tyler Cowen to The Volokh Conspiracy at 9/9/2003 03:10:16 PMPowered by Blogger Pro
ig mistake. --Posted by Tyler Cowen to The Volokh Conspiracy at 9/10/2003 08:06:02 AMPowered by Blogger Pro
the consumers. And consumers with quirky tastes, such as myself, might well be better off. Consumers who look to music for its social functions will probably be worse off, ironically these are the young downloaders themselves. --Posted by Tyler Cowen to The Volokh Conspiracy at 9/11/2003 07:03:47 AMPowered by Blogger Pro
education was not a good idea. Nor do we hear much about the $12 billion in remittances expected to pass from the United States to Mexico this year, and what that sum means for the Mexican poor. At the end of the day I am still pro-immigration, even if we are not doing it very well. --Posted by T
urrent law. But if there were no copyright, it would be hard to fund a music industry at anything close to current levels.
Thanks to Chris Siebenmann for the lead on the link. --Posted by Tyler Cowen to The Volokh Conspiracy at 9/13/2003 11:08:46 PMPowered by Blogger Pro
hat juries are the better system. A disagreement means that one of the two parties are wrong, but you don't maximize chance of rightness by the mere fact of agreement. --Posted by Tyler Cowen to The Volokh Conspiracy at 9/14/2003 08:31:01 PMPowered by Blogger Pro
t such a good signal when decisionmakers wear universal and common blinders.
I'm all for a critical scrutiny of the jury system, but let's judge it by fair standards. --Posted by Tyler Cowen to The Volokh Conspiracy at 9/14/2003 08:31:01 PMPowered by Blogger Pro
it appears to be the expected mix of engaging, lucid argument and impressive multidisciplinary erudition. If you don't already know Sunstein, he is one of the most important and most readable legal scholars writing today. --Posted by Tyler Cowen to The Volokh Conspiracy at 9/15/2003 07:11:30 AMPowered
. The bottom line is still that fewer Iraqis are dying. You can argue that no war and sanctions removal might have been better for the world (not my position), but you still should admit that the war improved on the status quo ex ante, for the Iraqis, even if it was not first best. --Posted by Tyler
--Posted by Tyler Cowen to The Volokh Conspiracy at 9/16/2003 09:26:39 AMPowered by Blogger Pro
I've now finished Cass Sunstein's Why Societies Need Dissent. It is no disappointment, it offers the best discussion of the mechanics of conformity that I have seen. Recommended. --Posted by Tyler Cowen to The Volokh Conspiracy at 9/16/2003 09:26:39 AMPowered by Blogger Pro
have seen. --Posted by Tyler Cowen to The Volokh Conspiracy at 9/17/2003 08:16:05 AMPowered by Blogger Pro
titled "Ask Not What Telemarketers Can Do For You."
--Posted by Tyler Cowen to The Volokh Conspiracy at 9/18/2003 08:02:44 AMPowered by Blogger Pro
ed at only one angle. I will continue the topic. And my apologies if my blogging turns irregular, it is a temporary result of the storm, I have to run out to Kinko's to blog.
--Posted by Tyler Cowen to The Volokh Conspiracy at 9/20/2003 11:04:13 AMPowered by Blogger Pro
lines are better for our health. If I read this advisor to terrorists correctly, underground lines may be less vulnerable to sabotage as well. I am not willing to endorse this idea, but the prospect of two weeks without power in my home naturally leads me to look for alternatives. --Posted by Tyler
was a Devin Vasquez remake of Frankie Smith's "Double Dutch Bus."
--Posted by Tyler Cowen to The Volokh Conspiracy at 9/21/2003 03:13:38 PMPowered by Blogger Pro
lpert says. The resetting process means it's almost impossible for us to tickle ourselves, because our brains are already one step ahead of us, predicting our actions and desensitizing us to them."
Unfortunately, I doubt if anyone in the Middle East is listening.
--Posted by Tyler Cowen to
problems I can't see my way past, hold on for the next installment. --Posted by Tyler Cowen to The Volokh Conspiracy at 9/21/2003 08:16:37 PMPowered by Blogger Pro
Last year trial lawyers pulled in $40 billion from lawsuits, or twice as much as the revenues of the Coca-Cola company. For more click here.
I am also pleased to announce that my electricity is again fully normal, I will write more on antiquities soon. --Posted by Tyler Cowen to The Volokh
As long as you only eat with them, and in first class at that. Read this excerpt from Gary Leff's excellent travel blog. (Conflict of interest notification: I work with Gary at George Mason.) --Posted by Tyler Cowen to The Volokh Conspiracy at 9/24/2003 05:48:38 PMPowered by Blogger Pro
"Tyler Cowen of the Volokh Conspiracy writes :
The number stunned me. Last year trial lawyers pulled in $40 billion from lawsuits, or twice as much as the revenues of the Coca-Cola company.
So here's my question: Is he stunned that the American Lawyer's list of the top 100 law firms (w
vived, and the millions more still waiting beneath the earth for a free-market solution to uncover, study and distribute them."
All of these points are excellent, but I still am not willing to privatize all sites, more on this shortly.
--Posted by Tyler Cowen to The Volokh Conspiracy at 9/25/200
of markets and context.
I would be happy if anyone could talk me out of this position, but right now that is where I stand. --Posted by Tyler Cowen to The Volokh Conspiracy at 9/25/2003 09:26:42 PMPowered by Blogger Pro
y be wrong, but will you remember those details in any case? Probably not. You will, however, be spurred to look at a variety of artworks and art periods with fresh eyes. Isn't that what art books are for? Recommended, and it makes a good present for the holidays. --Posted by Tyler Cowen to The Volokh Consp
to mess up some new, innovative idea, and give it a bad name, try it out in the District early on in its history. --Posted by Tyler Cowen to The Volokh Conspiracy at 9/28/2003 09:09:11 PMPowered by Blogger Pro
the underlying legwork behind the stories, and how will that commonly-shared infrastructure be paid for? --Posted by Tyler Cowen to The Volokh Conspiracy at 9/29/2003 01:57:01 PMPowered by Blogger Pro
The Germans forcing interventionist policies on the French, is that really the kind of national tradition that the French cannot discard?
--Posted by Tyler Cowen to The Volokh Conspiracy at 10/1/2003 12:01:37 PMPowered by Blogger Pro
professor he also was once a student of Ludwig Mises, when he was a teenager, I am told. --Posted by Tyler Cowen to The Volokh Conspiracy at 10/2/2003 10:37:33 AMPowered by Blogger Pro
Click here for one selection, offered by www.geekpress.com, and of course no one will promise that they haven't been manipulated or digitally enhanced. --Posted by Tyler Cowen to The Volokh Conspiracy at 10/2/2003 10:44:09 AMPowered by Blogger Pro
electrical power and which do not. --Posted by Tyler Cowen to The Volokh Conspiracy at 10/2/2003 10:44:09 AMPowered by Blogger Pro
d be drawn?
4. Do you wish that gun control could work? If it were proven that "Fewer guns, less crime" were true, would you be happy, knowing that now we could ban guns and lower the crime rate? Or would this create a moral dilemma for you?
That's my four cents for tonight. --Posted b
only makes it harder for for critics to recommend the work. --Posted by Tyler Cowen to The Volokh Conspiracy at 10/4/2003 05:34:50 PMPowered by Blogger Pro
, though it does not do justice to his presence. It does mention his history with the Black Panthers. Here is a brief bit on his time in Jamaica. Here is his home page. --Posted by Tyler Cowen to The Volokh Conspiracy at 10/4/2003 05:43:22 PMPowered by Blogger Pro
ll of these products or consider them of cultural value. And I should note that I do not think that unrestricted immigration is practicable in today's world.
Oh, yes, let's not forget about all those ethnic restaurants, few of which would exist without liberal immigration. --Posted by Tyler
ven if you are skeptical about Granger-causality. --Posted by Tyler Cowen to The Volokh Conspiracy at 10/8/2003 10:34:23 AMPowered by Blogger Pro
, but the general point remains important. We need to consider the secondary consequences of gains from trade, not just the direct consequences. --Posted by Tyler Cowen to The Volokh Conspiracy at 10/9/2003 11:57:22 AMPowered by Blogger Pro
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