Diatribes - Computer, Economic & Political

This blog is really just for me. If you find something interesting on it, leave me a comment. If you disagree with something, let me know what and why. In this blog I am just putting some of my thoughts for computers, the economy, politics, and other topics in writing.

15 January 2011

The Economic Value of Higher Teacher Quality

This paper is highly readable - very low on jargon. The models used are also fairly simple to understand. The numbers he comes up wit...

Why is a deficit bad?

In a practical sense, a deficit is bad because it represents overspending. The government has taken on so many future liabilities to pay for...

Is economics a science?

I think function is more important than labels, so the debate over whether econ is labeled as a science or not seems like a waste of time. I...

12 February 2010

3rd Party Doctrine Should Go

I ran across an article about the feds arguing that locational information from cell phones is not private . This is disappointing from Oba...

09 February 2010

Tea Partiers are Neocons

Political sophistry doesn't get any more stupid than this: " Tea Parties Go After Ron Paul " (here is a less op-ed article ). ...

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