The virtue of excellence

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

links

Busy still with working and moving, but there's some links in the last couple days:
  • Taxprofblog finds best colleges according to employers (HT: Insty)
  • Russ Roberts with a great experiment to test Keynesian government spending.
  • Matt Ridley: Don't be bleak.
  • Kling: Germany used to work more than the US, then higher taxes came.
  • Philip Greenspun: US System particularly bad for cutting government vs. European systems.
  • Sheldon Richman: Obama, neocon. It remains underappreciated that neocons are a bunch of democrats who decided national security was important, but still believe the government should run everything.
  • Robin Hanson: Bike Helmets. Key line is at the very end.

2 comments:

Alrenous said...

I forgot I was looking for reasons that the market will be able to handle depleting oil. Hey! There is it. At the very least, peakoil.com is too ignorant to be trusted. Next least, the problems are elsewhere than the doom prophets generally look. Nuclear waste is an issue. Is it a solvable issue? I don't even know, I haven't seen any analysis at all.

Similarly, even if he's wrong and population growth is an issue, those non-replacement rates attest we've accidentally solved it. We just need to figure out how, exactly so it can be refined and repeated.

Mark Horning said...

Fascinating list of Universities. Interesting that SIZE of the student body seems to be the driving force behind the list.

I got my Masters from ASU (5 on the list), and I can guarantee the program is no where near as rigorous as say Cal Poly or UC Davis.