- ‘The crypto-homo-rockers David, Iggy and Lou‘
- George Monbiot on cost-benefit analysis
- Tony Kushner Responds to CUNY Board Decision to deny him an honoury degree
- Guardian / Information is Beautiful inforgraphic on which fish it is ok to eat
- A destination marketing dilemma: How do you sell a city like Sheffield? « Grumpy Traveller
- (Egoistic link warning:)Overload and Escape: Two Perspectives on Writing and Reading Narratives
- Download links for CBC’s How to Think About Science
- C Cleaner is a utility for windows which helps de-crud your machine
- Ray Tallis: What Neuroscience Cannot Tell Us About Ourselves
- Late-Night Thoughts Against Reductionism – Whimsley
- A message to the illiberal Nudge Industry: push off | spiked
- Wired: Wake Up, Geek Culture. Time to Die
- The Autofocus Productivity Method: Stop Maintaining To-Do Lists and Start Getting Stuff Done
- Thorough article on wealth and income distribution in America: Who Rules America: Wealth, Income, and Power. See also Norton and Ariely – most Americans, including academic economists, are systemmatically ignorant of the extent of wealth inequality
- Casuals: The Lost Tribe of Britain, They dressed cool and fought
Links for June and July 2011
July 28th, 2011 § 1 comment
I would be interested to know how Monbiot proposes to take the type of decision he is railing about, if not by economic calculation. Shall we ask the haruspices ? Shall we draw lots ? Shall we just play safe and ask him ?
Note moreover that he is making a caricature of economic calculation on one hand, and resorting to exactly the same type of logic on the other, when he actually tries to bring in a little objective (and incidentally, justified) criticism. There’s a very good reason for that: economic decisions are taken for economic motives. And why the rant about evil companies ? Is that the man’s version of “ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam”?