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Posts from January 2003

And So to Bed

I’ve been reading Samuel Pepys’ diary most nights before bed since late last Summer.


Costs and Claims

Recently, Chris Bertram evaluated the case for war and found it wanting.


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29 January 2003 @ 2pm

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Reverse Tinkerbell Example

David Post over at the Volokh Conspiracy has discovered the concept of self-defeating or `suicidal’ prophecies.


The Ecology of Open Source Software

A new paper on Open Source Software development.


Black/White Wealth Gap

Mark Kleiman follows up on the size of the wealth gap by race. (Ampersand has posted some summary data, so you can see how horrible the gap is.) I’d posted about this and Ted Barlow picked up on it, particularly on my mention of Dalton Conley’s work which suggests, in a nutshell, that differences […]


In Small things and Large

I’m about to go teach my undergrad social theory class. We’re reading Adam Smith (at least, I’m reading him) and looking at his argument about the invisible hand of the market . I’ve already had the class do a couple of practical experiments in distributed co-ordination, which were lots of fun. (At least, they were for me.)


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