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Unicast: John Quiggin: “Lindzen’s case enables us to draw the conclusion that the link between human activity and climate change is now so well-established that it would make us much sense as to doubt the relationship between smoking and lung cancer, that is, no sense at all.” (via Cosmos)
The Conspiracy to Keep You Poor and Stupid: When I teach undergraduates, I very consciously describe the field of economics as a science, so no student would start the course thinking he was embarking on some squishy academic endeavor. Our colleagues in the physics department across campus may find it amusing that we view them as close cousins, but we are quick to remind anyone who will listen that economists formulate theories with mathematical precision, collect huge data sets on individual and aggregate behavior, and exploit the most sophisticated statistical techniques to reach empirical judgments that are free of bias and ideology (or so we like to think). (via Cosmos)
[The Lumber Of The World] Imperial Finance: Dollar Anxiety: Real Reasons to Worry John Miller The value of the dollar is falling. Does that mean that our economic sky is falling as well?
[Economistsview.typepad.com] Economist's View: Environment: But the fact is that whatever small chance there was of action to limit global warming became even smaller because Exxon Mobil chose to protect its profits by trashing good science. And that, not the paycheck, is the real scandal of Mr.
[Secularhumanist.blogspot.com] WASH Perspectives: As Paul Krugman reports in the August 5 issue of the New York Times, there exists “a sort of parallel intellectual universe” in the sciences. Back in 1978, neoconservative theorist Irving Kristol encouraged major corporations to direct their “philanthropic contributions to scholars and institutions who are likely to advocate preservation of a strong private sector.” Thus conservative think tanks emerged, first in the area of economics and then in hard science””creating in Krugman’s words, “a world of ”˜scholars’ whose careers are based on toeing an ideological line, rather than on doing research that stands up to scrutiny by their peers.” We see this clearly regarding the issue of global warming.
[Hispanicpundit.com] Hispanic Pundit » Books: In a time where 93% of Democrats vote against free trade, it is important to be reminded why all economists, whether liberal or conservative, are for free trade, and liberal economist Alan Blinder is here to set the record straight.
[Voxdeserto.com] voxdeserto: Krugman has a great discussion on obesity and health care. The discussion is very interesting as obesity can lead to higher cost in health insurance.
[Electricedge.com] gordon.coale weblog archives: KRUGMAN: I think you have to think of this as there's more than one player in this thing. If you ask Norquist or the Heritage Foundation about where the economic and social policy intelligentsia really stands, their aim is to roll us back to Herbert Hoover or before.
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