From the monthly archives:

May 2006

The Baffling Mind of Anya Kamenetz

May 31, 2006

Anya Kamenetz’s mind is an ideological funhouse mirror designed to baffle and enrage the economically literate. In an op-ed yesterday in the NY Times, Kamenetz laments the rise of unpaid internships, and asks the question foremost in all our minds: “What if the growth of unpaid internships is bad for the labor market and for [...]

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Climb or Jump?

May 30, 2006

I comment on Austan Goolsbee’s Economic Scene column from Thursday’s NYT over at Cato@Liberty.

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What’s the Message, Washington?

May 26, 2006

Paul Graham says
I find every ambitious town sends you a message. New York tells you “you should make more money.” LA tells you “you should be better looking.” Rome tells you “you should dress better.” London tells you “you should be hipper.” The Bay Area tells you “you should live better.” [...]

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More Cato Blogging

May 25, 2006

Sorry posting have has been so light. But I do have a new post up at Cato@Liberty for your reading pleasure.

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Tories for Happiness

May 23, 2006

The politics of happiness research just got a bit more interesting. British Conservative leader David Cameron is now campaigning on a happiness platform. In a speech at a conference organized by Google in Hertfordshire, Cameron said,
It’s time we admitted that there’s more to life than money, and it’s time we focused not just on GDP, [...]

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Formula for What? Aggregation v. Coordination

May 18, 2006

The BBC has been running a six part documentary called The Happiness Formula that appears to buy in almost completely to Lord Layard’s technocratic Benthamite vision. I’ll be putting up several posts responding to a number of the articles posted on the BBC website. For now, here is Daniel Ben-Ami at Spiked Online, [...]

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Writely

May 16, 2006

Can someone out there with a Writely account invite me? (I think you do this by inviting me as a collaborator on a document.) Thanks!
[It is done. Thank you!]

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Précarité is the Price You Must Pay

May 16, 2006

One of the things I’ve learned in my study of the happiness literature is that people don’t take enough risks. The evidence seems to indicate that many people would be happier if they quit their job and either went into business for themselves, or found a new job that better matched their individual strengths—even if [...]

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Writely Test

May 16, 2006

This is how we roll in writely.

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Marriage vs. Play Station 3

May 11, 2006

Reihan Salam and I have a rather profound piece in Slate’s “Dismal Science” slot arguing that a PS3 will make you happier than marriage.  Please note that all specious and sophistical reasoning is presented in the service of satire. No cogent  arguments were harmed in the writing of this article.

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New Stuff at New Cato Blog

May 8, 2006

I’ve got a new post up at Cato@Liberty about Daniel Gilbert’s Stumbling on Happiness and paternalism

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Cato Blog Domination

May 2, 2006

If you haven’t heard tell, Cato has a new blog, Cato@Liberty, featuring the entire Cato policy staff commenting on news, recent events, and pressing issues that concern us all! We’re just getting started, but I don’t think you’ll regret adding @Liberty to your feedreader. Once we all get up to speed on this blogging thing, [...]

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