This is a really interesting and well produced article (as are other pages on The Pudding), and I highly recommend it. There’s a version you… Read More »Recommendation: The Pudding on the Yard-Sale Model and Wealth Tax
Tyler Cowen thinks this is the best interview question of all time. I’m skeptical, but concede that it’s a good way of taking a snapshot… Read More »Retrospective: DriverlessCrocodile Open Browser Tabs, December 2022
Two kinds of reading Niall Ferguson: I think there are two kinds of reading. When one’s reading for work, when one has to grapple with… Read More »Niall Ferguson on reading, remembering and shared culture
… the capitalist engine is first and last an engine of mass production which unavoidably means also production for the masses, whereas, climbing upward in… Read More »Schumpeter on who gains from mass production
The Feynman Lectures on Physics are available online courtesy of Caltech. Here’s an elegant description of probability in the real world: See also: Who Says?Decisions… Read More »Richard Feynman on probability fluctuations
… and the impossibility of equality. This is an interesting little study on the origins of individuality, diversity, and inequality (in fish). Recommended. Behavioral individuality… Read More »Fish Forks: behavioural individuality among genetically identical fish…
KING HENRY V (unrecognised): …methinks I could not die any where so contented as in the king’s company; his cause being just and his quarrel… Read More »Recommendation: Paul Fussell (and Shakespeare) on Real War
If you’re in a position of responsibility in any organisation – a business or department of a business, a social club, a non-profit – it… Read More »Resource: Martin Blais / Beancount on the double entry counting method (bookkeeping)
Recommended. Abstract We show that any cross-national measure of human material wellbeing that is (i) basics (not luxuries),(ii) general (uses indicators from multiple domains), and(iii)… Read More »“Empirically sufficient and empirically necessary” – Lant Pritchett on economic growth as the (only) key to poverty reduction
In the second installment of James Lovegrove’s tremendous Sherlock Holmes / H. P. Lovecraft mashup, Moriarty – assumed dead – has returned as the god… Read More »Emperor of Ruins (Lovecraftian anthropology; Kremlin psychodrama)