In the news
:: Posted 10/11/09 :: Categorized as Blog
- My vote for the Nobel economics prize on Monday: Harvard environmental economist Marty Weitzman.
- Yes We Can (Pass Climate Change Legislation) by JOHN KERRY and LINDSEY GRAHAM. Joseph Romm says this means at least 4 GOP votes for a climate bill.
- Comics swamp the NYC neighborhood of Astoria in “Anybody Here From Astoria?“. Joke #1: “My block is so quiet,” begins a joke that Moody McCarthy has added to his routine, “if there’s any yelling at night that means Ecuador scored a goal.” Joke #2: “In case you haven’t been to a comedy show in a while, comedians are still having little luck with the ladies. And living in Astoria isn’t necessarily helping.”
- E.U. Plan to Curb Carbon Dioxide Would Favor Solar Power
- Adversity Helped Shape Snowe’s Health Care View. My favorite part: Even by the workaholic standards of many legislators, Ms. Snowe is known as especially tenacious. She attributes that in part to her Greek immigrant father, George John Bouchles, whom she recalls sending her back to school when she came home at lunchtime. She kept trying to explain to him that kindergarten lasted only a few hours. “Fine,” he told her, “if you don’t want to amount to anything, don’t go back to school.” Five-year-old Olympia Bouchles finally had to ask her teacher to write a note to her father explaining the half-day concept.
- Legal Cost for Throwing Monkey Wrench Into the System
- New Way to Tap Gas May Expand Global Supplies. A huge deal; is coal on the way out?
- One of my favorite New Yorker cartoons: “I’m not a machine, Deborah. I can’t just turn my greed on and off.“
- Health Care Bill Gets Green Light in Cost Analysis
- Leaner Times at Harvard: No Cookies
- Israel Gelfand, Math Giant, Dies at 96. My favorite part: Dr. Gelfand, who often said, “You have to be fast only to catch fleas,” sought to teach not only the rules of math, but also the beauty and exactness of the field. “Mathematics is a way of thinking in everyday life,” Dr. Gelfand said in a 2003 interview with The New York Times. “It is important not to separate mathematics from life. You can explain fractions even to heavy drinkers. If you ask them, ‘Which is larger, 2/3 or 3/5?’ it is likely they will not know. But if you ask, ‘Which is better, two bottles of vodka for three people, or three bottles of vodka for five people?’ they will answer you immediately. They will say two for three, of course.”
My new book is now out in English and traditional Chinese! (German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Indonesian, Polish, and simplified Chinese translations are coming!)
de Soto should get Nobel prize :+) dont you think so ??
sorry to say that its Oliver Williamson with TCE and Elinor Ostrom on the commons who won the Nobel.
I’ll check out Marty Weitzman. I don’t know much about him.