What Price Progress?

You probably want to follow my other tumblog. This one happens to be the main one of my account, when really, my main tumblog is here.

“When the facts change, I change my mind – what do you do, sir?” John Maynard Keynes (1883 - 1946)

Disclaimer

E-mail me at: whatpriceprogress at gmail.com

Blogs I follow:
Aid Watch (W.Easterly)
Brussels Blog (FT)
Cafe Hayek
Clive Crook
Dani Rodrik
Freakonomics
Gideon Rachman
Greg Mankiw
Martin Wolf
Partially Unexpected
Paul Krugman
Robert Peston
Stephanie Flanders
The Undercover Economist - Tim Harford
Westminster Blog (FT)
Willem Buiter's Maverecon

The name for this blog comes from the song "What Price Perfection Part III" by the consistently awesome Sonic Anaphones

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.
Wed Nov 25
Good news, oh no wait it’s bad news. Bad news, oh no wait it’s good news. FT FTW

Good news, oh no wait it’s bad news.

Bad news, oh no wait it’s good news.

FT FTW

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Fri Jul 10
Wagner's Tannhäuser is logical!

I want to see this Opera pretty badly.

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Wed Jul 8
Google and Grameen together in Uganda

So, Google just posted a new item on their blog, (no, not THAT one from yesterday).

I think that little projects like this are what really makes technology worthwhile.
One can be fairly certain that the first question these people ask is not “Who can has cheezburger?”

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Google OS

ben:

John Dvorak might be right

about Google Chrome OS.

Yeah, I tend to agree more with Dvorak rather than the more sensationalist posts I read about it from The Economist and TechCrunch (a nuclear bomb!?!)

As usual, SlashDot makes for very interesting reading.

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Sun Jun 28

I’m rationalising my current overspending by citing the Permanent-Income Hypothesis.

Does this make me good or bad at managing money?

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Wed Jun 24
I thought it was about time I sorted that out. Honesty is the best policy and all that. You might be reading the wrong tumblog for me. Try here

I thought it was about time I sorted that out.
Honesty is the best policy and all that.
You might be reading the wrong tumblog for me. Try here

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Benford’s law of controversy

Benford’s law of controversy is an adage from the 1980 novel Timescape, stating:

Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available.

via

I like this tongue-in-cheek law. I will be quoting it a lot!

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Fri May 15
Blimey - that’s a graph and a half! (via FT Alphaville)

Blimey - that’s a graph and a half! (via FT Alphaville)

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Fri Apr 24
jakelodwick: Foreign Policy: The Land of No Smiles. Must-see. Via onigiri. This is more than a little depressing, but a must see. The world is crazy.

jakelodwick:

Foreign Policy: The Land of No Smiles. Must-see. Via onigiri.

This is more than a little depressing, but a must see. The world is crazy.

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Does being around hard line conservatives make you more liberal?

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