Category: Lighter side
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Mark D. White This morning's Baby Blues comic strip falls under the category "out of the mouths of babes": Even litte Hammie knows that it isn't always about the numbers–sometimes it's about the principle of that matter! This made me think of Amartya Sen's example of counterpreferential choice in which a person has to choose…
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Mark D. White This Non Sequitur comic appeared in this morning's newspaper (and online): Ha ha, we get it, economists are stubborn theorists who are holed up in their ivory towers with no sense of the real world, situational context, or empirical circumstances. I almost tweeted this comic, as I do with two or…
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Mark D. White In a recent "The Shrink and the Sage" piece in the Financial Times Magazine, Julian Baggini (prolific popularizer of philosophy) and Antonia Macaro discuss the pursuit of happiness, which is very interesting in itself, but I was particularly amused by how Baggini started his half of the discussion: When psychology and philosophy…
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Mark D. White From today's funny pages:
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Mark D. White The New York Times has a great little piece today on Monopoly (the game), Milton Friedman, and monetary economics, which ends with this description of a particular game which took place in a University of Chicago dorm in the late 1970s: The precise details of our classic game are blurred by the…
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Mark D. White Check out "The Krugman" on Swimming Against the Mainstream, by Christopher Stiffler (obviously a Poe man's economist). An excerpt: With inquisitive expression quickly I began to question “How do we end this recession and full employment to restore?”Not shaken up nor shaven was the economic maven Quoth the Krugman, “Spend some more.”…
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Mark D. White I have to admit, malicious and hurtful stereotypes aside, this is funny…
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Mark D. White Today's Pickles strip provides a valuable service to gungho-ho-ho regulators everywhere: Why, this is going on in every neighborhood in America! Something must be done! I can hear them now: "We'll have to subsidize the decorators–no, no, we'll tax the nondecorators! Better yet, we'll make everyone buy holiday decorations, and tax penalize put…
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Mark D. White Cartoons like this (from xkcd) are sort of like Rorschach tests–I realize game theory wasn't what its creator intended, but that's what I see!
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Mark D. White Yesterday's Blondie strip was enlightening, albeit (likely) unintentionally so: I imagine Dagwood's response to the incentives provided by having to deal with some of the expenses of one's own health insurance is supposed to elicit disgruntled agreement among readers. But it really highlights an unintended consequence of the alternative: if individuals…
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