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Sinclair's Musings (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
... at the individualist end with the Americans. It sounds like we are culturally hard wired to what Chris would, I think, describe as an egoist way of understanding the world; the belief that our individual choices, actions and qualities are a crucial determinant of group success. Previously he has described how he would like his epitaph to read "he made no difference." This might make sense...
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Schneider Home (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
Chris Dillow, who any regular reader of this blog should know is my favourite blogger, has written a post on Michael Gove's speech about educational inequality . Read it. I left a comment, but I think I'll reproduce it here. I want to see what you think. Here it is: Educational inequalities are of course hugely important. Unfortunately, as you rightly state, targeted spending alone will...
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Vino's Political Blog (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
Chris Dillow points out that real wages have been squeezed . So it is workers' pay that seem to be bearing the effect of the economic downturn - not profits and dividends. Definitely a sign that the bargaining power of labour is too weak and that of capital is too strong.
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Obscene Desserts (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Chris Dillow points us to Arnold Kling 's statement that his most 'absurd belief' is: that human nature has changed in the last few hundred years. If you could go back to 1708 and replace all of the babies at conception with babies conceived today, my prediction is that the alternative history from 1708 to 2008 would have less violence, more economic growth, and faster scientific progress....
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Obsolete (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
... society and added to the growing list of perceived outrages committed by Muslims in this nominally Christian (though largely secular) country of ours. Pictures of the driver on his prayer-mat went the rounds. Except it didn't happen like that. The truth was that his bus had been taken out of service by an inspector because it was running late, and the passengers switched to the one behind...
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nourishing obscurity (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
Flipchart Fair Tales takes the esteemed Chris Dillow to task for his Times affected article on his blog: Since he got a regular column with the Times, Chris Dillow’s blog articles have become increasingly outlandish. His recent piece on why women are crap is a case in point. However, although his arguments, if that’s what you can call them, are silly, they are no worse than...
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Vino's Political Blog (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
Chris Dillow draws an intriguing distinction between two types of rationality - belief rationality and instrumental rationality. The first type seems to be the one that people most commonly discuss - whether there is evidence to support a belief. When someone says they are an atheist or an agnostic they are saying there is not evidence to prove the existence of God. However, instrumental...
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A Very British Dude (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
Only in the most absurdly post-modern, relativist thought process can "simply forgetting" be an acceptable excuse for failure to turn up to a job-focussed interview which forms a core requirement of your benefit payment. But that's exactly what Harpy Marx does here , and Chris Dillow seems to think her arguments are good enough to warrant a "top blogging" link. Apparently cutting benefits...
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Vino's Political Blog (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
Chris Dillow points out that people born in recessions, on average, tend to die at a younger age than those who were born during booms. This suggests that stress and other conditions that they were exposed to in the womb or in their early childhood may have significant effects on their health in later life.
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Jock's Place - Comments (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
Many thanks for the vote Jock. You're a braver man than I. I just can't whittle down all the blogs I read into a top ten. I know Chris Dillow would be number one but past that its just too tough. P.S. do you know of any good articles, pamphlets, books, pdfs etc on citizens income and LVT. I've read the sites you've linked to but I was wondering what else was around. Thanks, James.
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Banditry (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
Chris Dillow makes sense: “If people are prepared to lend to government at less than 1% real interest, let’s bleed them dry, because cheap money won’t last forever; infrastructure spending should be undertaken now, whilst it’s cheap.” The construction collapse will have the same effect on labour costs, which we can offset by removing the impact of [...]
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Turbulence Ahead (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
A recent post by Chris Dillow over at Stumbling and Mumbling got me thinking (more than usually) about happiness. Chris was making the point - paraphrasing crudely - that parents whose children die are irrationally sad as they overestimate the happiness the children would have given them anyway. Chris writes with compassion a lot of the time, by the way, so don't let my...
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Vino's Political Blog (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
Chris Dillow suggests that the individual incentives relating to participating in 20:20 cricket may be harming the team spirit of the England team. What is true in cricket might also be true in business. If individuals are rewarded for individual performances, then they have little incentive to work together in a team - especially to co-operate with the weaker members.
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bobvis (Free subscription) | 07/29/2008
Remember how Chris Dillow pointed us to this ?: "The poor generally do not compain about their health - but then they do not complain about life in general. While the poor certainly feel poor, their levels of self-reported happiness or health are not particularly low." That may not be true. Daniel Kahneman writes of how the Gallup World Poll has found a relationship between income and...
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Sinclair's Musings (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
I've written a post for the TPA blog making the case against a windfall tax. Chris Dillow does the same , from a more left wing perspective, over at his blog, Stumbling and Mumbling . A windfall tax would hurt the incentive to invest in really important energy infrastructure and is an awful, awful idea.
