Constructive Interference

This blog is for political and social commentary from a center left point of view.

Sunday, August 21, 2011

Magic of Zero

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Part of the source of the magic of zero comes from the odd disparity of society's opinion of borrowers and lenders. Consider someone w...

Citizens/Heroes

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The following Editorial in the NYT by William Deresiewicz is well worth a read, especially the last paragraph. (h/t to Kos ). “America needs...
Saturday, August 20, 2011

Another Look at Incorporation

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Recent thought I had about the nature of incorporation and the appropriate role of redistributive taxation. This is kind of a new way of lo...
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Thursday, August 18, 2011

Progressive Message

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I think there are a bunch of problems with the progressive message and how it is delivered. Progressive policies are fine (no doubt could ...
Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Broken Windows

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Yesterday, Matt Yglesias posted this about the broken window fallacy. Now the broken window fallacy is based upon the following parable at...
Saturday, July 30, 2011

Pathologies of Conservative Economics

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I've been thinking that one of the things that I find most objectionable about the conservative view on economics is that the proposed p...
Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Conservative Economics

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The central mystery of conservative economics is that it is based on two fundamental truths Without various services of government such as i...
Sunday, July 03, 2011

Patent Madness

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Matt Yglesias has had a few posts up (most recently here ) about technology patents and their role in (both good and bad) in the economy. So...

Content Aggregators

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This is an interesting article in the Atlantic from last week about the rise and success of Netflix. Netflix has been an enormously succe...
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