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• Is Joe Biden already done for?

  Wed Jan 31, 2007
  • bmvaughn: We have a (white) president that's remarkably inarticulate. I also think it's true that Obama is decidedly more articulate than your average senator, including Biden.

• Is Joe Biden already done for?

  Wed Jan 31, 2007
  • I'd like to play devil's advocate here for a bit, because I don't necessarily buy the idea that describing Obama as "the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy" is evidence of some subtle racism on Biden's part.

• Guilds Revisited

  Thu Sep 28, 2006
  • In terms of how well Newsvine works, yeah. But as someone who might be a UI designer (I'm currently in grad school, caught between HCI and game design), it'd be nice to cite official credit on a job application. :)

• Guilds Revisited

  Thu Sep 28, 2006
  • This whole issue of who gets credit makes me wonder.... I'm arguably the reason why the layout of the front page "below the fold" is the way it is now (one can check my article and comment history for proof).

• Chicago Council Passes 'Living Wage' Act

  Thu Jul 27, 2006
  • Can Rescheduling Explain the New Jersey Minimum Wage Studies?

• Chicago Council Passes 'Living Wage' Act

  Thu Jul 27, 2006
  • The Akerlof article should dissuade you from the idea that knowledge of human behavior in economics is merely deduced from self-knowledge.

• Chicago Council Passes 'Living Wage' Act

  Thu Jul 27, 2006
  • I had a much longer post written up, but I think it's better to simply refer you to a couple articles: http://www.berkeley.edu/news/features/2001/nobel/index.html http://www.economist.com/business/displaystory.cfm?story_id=7159491

• Chicago Council Passes 'Living Wage' Act

  Thu Jul 27, 2006
  • Economics may not be physics, but economic "laws" (or at least, conventional wisdoms like the expected impact of a rise in MW on unemployment) have to be substantiated by empirical evidence, no matter how difficult it might be to isolate causal factors.

• Chicago Council Passes 'Living Wage' Act

  Thu Jul 27, 2006
  • Observer, the 1994 Card-Krueger paper is essentially what started the debate. As one of the commenters on the Cafe Hayek post points out, this is why it's a "standard reference", which doesn't mean the sole reference. As eidolon points out, there are other studies that take similar positions.

• Chicago Council Passes 'Living Wage' Act

  Thu Jul 27, 2006
  • See my comment above, and read the comments to the blog post you linked to.