After nearly 17 years of blogging on Econlog, I decided to resign, resign as an effective alliance, and focus more on my substance. It’s Street “I’m a different blog.” The big advantage of my substance is that I have complete control over the subject and content.
The last 17 years have been fulfilling Vray, including my last nine years as an economics expert and my first eight years as a retiree. If I highlighted many posts that I am particularly proud of, this turned out to be a long post.
So I’ll mention:
To a series of four posts about Monopsony.
A series of three posts on criticism of Tyler Cowen’s great Barrington Declaration.
A post about how all regulations act as cities.
A post advocating that birth control pills are allowed to be sold at counters.
A challenging challenge enraged by the New York Times.
Monopony
In October 2016, economists from Barack Obama’s Council of Economic Advisors published an electronic report claiming there are many monoponies in the US economy. It is titled “Monopolynnny Labour in the Market: Trends, Conceits, Policy Responses.” Their claims stumbled upon me strangely, so I stored the report. I found out I’m wrong with it, too many to put one post. So I did it in part 4.
October 27, 2016, Econlog, Econlog is “Mixed Thinking about Monopsony in the CEA Labor Market” which provides a sub-background before criticizing the CEA Report.
October 28, 2016, Econlog, Econlog, which laid out CEA Weakneseses as well as Summer Economic Inferences, is “Cyco-mixed Thinking of the CEA Labor Market.”
This is “CEA’s Mixed Thinking of the Labor Market, Part III,” Econlog, October 31, 2016.
I won’t quote from the above four posts. Doing so would make this post too long.
And finally, on November 5th, 2016, there are Econlog, Econlog, “Mixed Thinking of the CEA in the Labor Market, Part IV.”
Incidentally, this series led to my interview with Ben Casselman of the New York Times. He wrote this article on January 25th, 2018 after I wrote it. Here we have reported on NYT’s works.
I didn’t mind pointing it out because it happens frequently, and although I’m very tired of pointing it out, I realized that Casselmann had identified the ideology of the Hoover facility. Apparently, even Marshall Steinbaum, author of the NBER Report, does not appear to be ideological.
Cowen of the Great Barrington Declaration
I’ve written many posts dealing with the most important US poly issues from 2020 to 2022: How to deal with Covid. Here I will focus on my criticism of Tyler Cowen’s sub-sloppy thinking.
October 16, 2020, Econlog, Econlog, “Is Cowen correct about the Great Barrington Declaration?”
October 17, 2020, Econlog, Econlog, “Is Cowen correct about the Great Barrington Declaration?”
On October 26th, 2020, there will be Econlog, “Tyler Cowen Double Down.”
Reflections on living in New York City
January 12, 2011, Econlogue, “Reflections on Freedom in New York.”
Here are three paragraphs.
I convinced United to fly to San Diego instead of returning to Monterey (I was too late to get back to Monterey and board a flight to San Diego for the Liberty Fund meeting), so I’m short on clothing. So I booed a lovely dress shirt for sale at the store on Fifth Avenue. The man behind the counter was friendly and helpful, and had light skin and accents. I asked if he was from Iran. He is. He got warmer when he saw that he was a negative judgment like my curiosity at work and my negative judgment. It sounded complicated when I asked him what his name and I spelled it right for the first time, he was pleased.
Why am I telling a story? Because when I think of New York City in an abstract way, I think of cities that don’t work. Taxes are high, there are too many crowds, people are pushy and not friendly, etc. I think it would work out when I actually go through New York then. People are trying to give me what I want for a fairly low price. I came across – and there were many people in the last two days – Don came here for welfare, but apparently came here for the opportunity to become wealthy. And the people are friendly.
Why are people friendly? Partly because I love people and I am friendly with them. Also, partly because they are paid to be friendly. They do better by being friendly to their customers. As I laid out with the joy of freedom, the market, the economist odyssey, produces virtue. Part of the virtue is simple familiarity and usefulness.
Contraceptives will be sold at the counter
On February 13, 2012, Econlog, Econlog, How to Reduce the Cost of Contraceptives, explained how women could have a faster and more outlook on contraceptives if the Fed allows them to sell at the counter. I was one of the first people to do that, but in the coming months, tough people made the same suggestions.
Workplace challenges
Finally, this post, “Workplace Issues,” Econlog, January 7, 2019, New York Times article on the 2019 American Economic Association Conference panel. In the comments, please note that my thoughts are confusing economist Joshua Gunn.
Luckily, Commeror RP Long responds to Gans, understands and writes my point.
David presented Vray with a reasonable, empowered and assertive solution to the problem. Rather than getting caught up in what people may want or do, he suggests simply asking people how they want to be treated.
The last note
I really enjoy blogging for the Liberty Fund. One of the things that always animated me was the name of the organization that liked me: the Liberty Fund. I strongly believe in freedom. Incidentally, that’s not true to say that I have replaced the belief in freedom for good economic reasoning.
By writing an average of 24 posts a month, I was able to develop my own ideas and writing skills (especially my spered at the time of my writing) was helpful when Amy Willis was great at work when I was wetting my legs. I would like to thank Emilio Pacheco for providing the gig, and former Felow blogger Bryan Caplan for being so welcoming when I started.
I also appreciate the literal sinking of the comer for adding valuable insights and asking good questions.
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