Category Archives: economics

Singapore, Retro Arcades, The Domestic Transformer, and the Trivers-Willard Hypothesis: my recent Metafilter activity

Posted on January 21, 2009 by Dave Gottlieb

(please excuse junky styles) De la démocratie en Singapore Economist Bryan Caplan is author of the best contemporary critique of democracy and democraticness (previously), and therefore the person I’d most like to visit Singapore and share his thoughts. He recently … Continue reading →

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Slate: Mini-golf is a public good

Posted on June 17, 2008 by Dave Gottlieb

Slate’s Explainer gives a long-ish discussion of DoJ figures claiming that new “rules . . . that would make it easier for people with disabilities to move around . . . office buildings, swimming pools, and miniature-golf courses . . … Continue reading →

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Bragging and inequality

Posted on August 18, 2007 by Dave Gottlieb

Bragging hurts by wounding our desire for fairness, our resentment of inequality. It rubs our faces in the ways in which others are better off than us. In a real sense, it magnifies existing inequalities, or (another way of looking … Continue reading →

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Laundry machine growth

Posted on July 13, 2007 by Dave Gottlieb

How fast does the number of laundry machines needed grow on the size of a dorm? I’ve had the intuition that it’s slower than linear, but I’m not sure why that should be the case. Hypotheses: If you’re risk-averse(?), you … Continue reading →

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