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Defining incentives

…can have the unintentional effect of undermining their internal drives. The striking thing about the research, said Roland Benabou, an economist at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International…

Obama and CNN : Alert to?

…that he’d gone to a madrasa: “We had to send CNN to look at the school that I attended in Indonesia where kids were wearing short pants and listening to…

Is forgetting the means to forgive

…education school where I worked in 1973 (thoroughly pre-owned), fixed it up, and went on a trip to Prince Edward Island with GF. Along the way there were was second…

Waterboarding reality

…US Navy Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape School (SERE) in San Diego, California I know the waterboard personally and intimately. SERE staff were required undergo the waterboard at its fullest….

Social Security, the new method of income redistribution

Economics at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. Seems some people somewhere are getting concerned that their pet project might be getting derailed. “Advocates of engagement with the world…

Kudlow and the Atlanta FED on Labor Force Participation

…jobs per month are required to keep unemployment under control. The reason? Labor-force participation has declined somewhat as more students remain in school, more workers take early retirement, and more…

Employment: DeLong v. Mankiw

…jobs because they would not want jobs even if the labor market were in its normal full-employment configuration – because they would rather be raising children or going to school