Category: Personal updates
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Another ASSA conference come and gone, this one in San Francisco. Very busy but the most enjoyable ASSA meeting I can remember. Why? Let's see. It certainly wasn't due to travel: even though I was on direct flight, flying between Newark to San Francisco is never fun, and I'm sorry, San Francisco, but BART makes…
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It's been a bit of an uneasy several months since my last update at the end of July. In the grand scheme of things, everything's fine—no one who I know died, lost their job, or decided to run for president—but for someone like me who tries to maintain a calm and smooth existence, it's been…
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It's two thirds of the way through summer 2015—so far, it's been an intense but good summer, with significant work done almost every day (except Saturdays, which are for the kids, and two short trips that nicely broke up the work). Most of the work was on the book manuscript that I submitted to my…
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The school year is over, commencement was enjoyed by all, and now the summer begins, which means only one thing for an academic—writing! (To the right You can see my writing coach, the ever-lovin' blue-eyed Thing, inspiring me from the background of my laptop.) But before I settle into work on a new book, let's…
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The snow gently falls as my long Presidents' Day weekend ends, and with a few new things out or coming soon, it felt like a good time for another personal update. (And no, that's not my house—a fella can dream, though!) I've had a fairly productive time since ASSA, especially in January before the spring…
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I'm back from another whirlwind ASSA conference, this one in Boston, where, if you're not careful, you can spend the entire conference in the hotels, Copley Place, and the Prudential Center, and never set foot on a Boston street! FRIDAY After arriving by train at Back Bay Station Friday afternoon—across the street from Copley Place,…
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This seems like a good time for an update—not an end of the year wrap-up, but just what I've been doing since my last update in October. The paper I wrote for the Mercatus Center, "The Problems with Measuring and Using Happiness for Policy Purposes," based on my last book, The Illusion of Well-Being, came out earlier…
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Blame my office staff, one of whom told me the other day that she looked at this site and saw my "final update" from June. While I have been updating my activity page regularly—more to mark progress for myself than for anyone else—that final update post lingers, implying the abrupt cessation of progress. (Not yet!)…
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Oh, don't cry, Superman—it'll be OK. I've decided to end this little experiment in giving periodic updates on my projects and activity. It was originally meant as a precommitment device, relying on social scaffolding to make sure I kept up my activity, especially blogging, but it wasn't effective (obviously!). After a while, what I did…
Mark D. White 