August 11, 2004
Irfan Khawaja calmly points out the dumbfounding contradictions in the reviews of Michael Moore’s latest tour de sophisme. For example:
Todd Gitlin’s review in Open Democracy calls Fahrenheit 9/11 a “shoddy work”: the film’s “sloppy insinuations, emotional blackmail and all–around demagoguery,” he argues, are an affront to one’s “conscience,” and make it the moral equivalent of [...]
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August 11, 2004
Thanks to those few who replied to my request for stuff on calculating real wages. Here’s what I’ve got so far:
Paul Krugman, “Viagra and the Wealth of Nations,”
Arnold Kling, “How Much Worse Off Are We?,” TCS, July 2004
Amartya Sen, “The Welfare Basis of Real Income Comparisons”, Journal of Economic Literature,1979 (available through JSTOR)
Jack Triplett, “Hedonic [...]
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