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.

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Wed Jun 24

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.

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