A wise man with a strong voice, read his blog.
“The odds of audit for high income taxpayers was less in 2001 than those of low income taxpayers — those with incomes less than $25,000 filing a simple return.”
This series of three lectures by Richard Layard on what we know about human happiness and what that might imply from a personal, social, and govermental point of view are just packed with thought provoking ideas.
For example we can now peek inside people’s heads and see which parts of their brains light up when they [...]
Brad DeLong makes a plea for more sleeping around! Excellent memetic engineering Brad! I want to be one of the first to help get this meme around. My earlier attempt at a similar meme The Ologarchy of Bloggers was such a looser compaired to “Link Slut”!
Now let’s see. For this sleeping [...]
The gentleman at BrowPau: http://www.brownpau.com/ provides a different look for his blog everytime you reload it. Very elegant designs.
I spend some amount of my time working on the problem of identity systems for the Internet. It is a complex problem with Citizens, and Firms, and Goverments, and Non-profits, and Criminals, and Platform vendors, and Incompetent people all messing about.
All those parties are attempting to find solutions in the face of very powerful [...]
I am very slowly reading and enjoying Charles Tilly’s Durable Inequality. It is a diffucult, very academic, read. He is facinating, though.
At one point he writes: “I claim that an account of how transactions clump into social ties, social ties concatenate into networks, and existing networks constrain solutions to organizational problems clarifies the [...]
As the mayor of New York comes clean on his membership in the hyper-upperclass he oil’d the water: ‘we should get over it.’ We? Well he did distributed 2% of the wealth (i.e. 100Million dollars) to charity; but since his wealth rose by 400 Million he appears to be falling behind.
Maybe this [...]
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