Tuesday, July 29, 2025
Labour Scarcity and Labour Coercion: Serfdom in Bohemia
Institutions are widely viewed as a fundamental cause of economic performance. But what are the causes of institutions?
CES Shows That the Future Will Not Work
The top consumer tech show in the US was chock full of products that visibly did not work, and no one seemed bothered.
Why Pretty Much Everything You Know About Depression Is Wrong
A new book takes issue with the widespread medicalization of depression.
Social Media, the “Dopamine Loop,” and the Role of the Software Engineer
Thoughts on the social media and the “dopamine loop”, and the role of the software engineer in creating it.
J.P. Morgan Health Conference All About The Deals Amid Uncertainty For Millions
There’s so much money floating around here this week, you can almost see it wafting through the air.
Careers and Families of High-Skilled Women in the Age of High Inequality
Who’d have thunk it? Cheap servants mean high income career women have more kids.
Trump’s Gift to the Climate Movement
How Trump’s climate change denialism helps activists.
2:00PM Water Cooler 1/12/2018
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Politics 2020 “To millennials who think they have it tough: ‘Give me a break,’ Biden says” (video) [Los Angeles Times]. Oprah Boomlet “Oprah 2020: Do we need another glitzy amateur in office?” [USA Today]. “If being a watchable TV personality selling fantasy qualifies one to be president, we might as […]
How Money Won Trump the White House
Contrary to media reports, Trump made significant contributions to his Presidential campaign.
Nomi Prins: My Financial Road Map for 2018
Some crystal ball gazing for 2018.
Voting Matters
Musing on the vagaries of voting in the US.
