- If you still haven't understood what universal health insurance is good for, read this: For Uninsured Young Adults, Do-It-Yourself Health Care. Statistically, this is the most healthy agegroup...
- Robert has an interesting post about and agaist refereeing fees. See also our posts Peer Review II, III, IV and V.
- Paul Kedrosky comments on Cheap Credit and Higher Education Tuition. Where is your country going?
- Great Photo
- Quotation of the week:
“If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.”~ George Bernard Shaw
Economics is equilibrium thermodynamics using the calculus. Economics has positive feedback, territory where delta-epsilon smoothing fails: 1637 Netherlands, Hunt brothers and silver, "Whip Inflation Now!", Long Term Capital Managment, America's debt orgy climax. Economics is Prigogine non-equilibrium thermodynamics, Mandelbrot fractals, Feigenbaum constants, chaos theory.
ReplyDeleteProblems can be solved locally while they are still simple and options are few. Imposed centrality beyond a non-iterative primitive framework is mathematically excluded from success.
Uncle Al loves a good experiment. The Second Amendment elicits honest citizens' local input when government is stupid and vicious. Acquire labware and consummables, folks. Theory is falsified.
Re: Health Care
ReplyDeleteQuoting: "Yet the average insurance premium for a single adult is $900 a month, according to a spokesman for the State Insurance Department."
That's quite a sum - especially if compared with Germany where the premium is 8.2% of your gross salary with a cap at a maximum of 300 Euros (~ 400$ atm). And your spouse & kids are covered, too.
Hi Bee,
ReplyDelete“If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.”
That’s reminiscent of an old joke which goes:
Question: What would you call 200 lawyers being chained to the ocean bottom?
Answer: I’m not certain, how about simply a good start? :-)
Best,
Phil
Am I supposed to feel bad for the kid to "has to" take a friend's amoxicillin (generic antibiotic) for the flu, which is a VIRUS?
ReplyDeleteAm I supposed to feel bad the journalist didn't know that?
ReplyDeleteIt seemed to me he proposal regarding referees' name being published, if imposed, will act as a disincentive to accept papers as the punishment for bad referee-ing in accepting seems to be greater than the reward, while there's nothing for rejecting.
ReplyDeleteHi Nirmalya,
ReplyDeleteYes, I would think in both cases it should be left to the referee to decide whether or not he wants to be anonymous. You might have reasons also to remain anonymous if you are recommending a paper for publication. I would find it a good idea though if a final report was publicly available in either case. Best,
B.
lol Bee, great quote.
ReplyDeleteAnd what if all cosmic black holes were laid 'end to end'