Via Project Syndicate: The Internet, like the steam engine, is a technological breakthrough that changed the world. Today, if you have an Internet connection, you have at… Read more “Odd Sentences”
Month: March 2010
Fans of Yglesias
If you happen to be a fan of Matthew Yglesias, and have always wanted a grunge-themed desktop background based upon his name, you are in luck! I’ll… Read more “Fans of Yglesias”
Falling NGDP Makes Mountains out of Mole Hills
Further verification that the cause of the deepest part of the recession (2008Q3 onward) was tight money causing falling NGDP. Check out this map, courtesy of Mark… Read more “Falling NGDP Makes Mountains out of Mole Hills”
Chalk Two Up for “Too Brittle To Sustain”
I’m a big proponent of the “Too Brittle to Sustain” theory of financial collapse. Today, I find that I am in the company of two others. From… Read more “Chalk Two Up for “Too Brittle To Sustain””
Blog Header
In the last post I had asked what was probably a rhetorical question of whether I should design the header to be “trendy” or “classy”. As you… Read more “Blog Header”
New Blog Layout
As you can probably tell, I switched my blog layout… I don’t know if many people associate blog layouts with “brands”, but I do. Probably the “designer”… Read more “New Blog Layout”
Human Capital?
Nick Rowe has a post over at Worthwhile Canadian Initiative that is apparently from his colleague, Frances Woolley, about whether human capital is literal truth, myth, or… Read more “Human Capital?”
Just Like Liquidity Traps…
This isn’t really what I had in mind for Leigh Caldwell, but I started playing around with the text, and wanted to make a sun…and a black… Read more “Just Like Liquidity Traps…”
The Marginal Revolution in Space
In keeping with my meme of doing graphic art for people who don’t ask for it, here is another, kind of whimsical piece I made using the… Read more “The Marginal Revolution in Space”
Economics and Entropy: Fitness II
In the previous installments, we explained how value is created through irreversible processes, how all economic transactions and transformations involve entropy, and we took a stab into… Read more “Economics and Entropy: Fitness II”