Category: Economics

  • 17/11/2020
    Following on from the previous post, here is a bit more economics, surely germane to Deaton and Case’s work, and…
  • 16/11/2020
    The history of science is the history of rejected ideas (and manuscripts). One example I always come back to is…
  • 02/11/2020
    From this week’s Economist | Breaking through Yet nowhere too little capital is being channelled into innovation. Spending on R&D…
  • 15/10/2020
    I think1 the words are mine: Every time I hear the term line-manager used about an academic, retirement gets a…
  • 02/09/2020
    Everybody wants growth but.. "Everyone wants growth but no one wants change." Paul Romer
  • 21/08/2020
    I read about the QALY (quality adjusted life year) during my intercalated degree in 1980-81, when we were exposed to…
  • 31/07/2020
    No Mercy / No Malice / Killer whales The killer whales (cash cows) of high-tuition prestige universities are international students.…
  • 04/07/2020
    The secret of how to get rich Angus Deaton: Many people have said that there are two ways of getting rich:…
  • 26/06/2020
    Another telling figure from Thomas Piketty’s Capital and Ideology. The stiking thing about much of this book is how predicable…
  • 08/06/2020
    From Capital and Ideology, by Thomas Piketty. Discuss... Online link