I have started another blog (”somewhere i have never traveled“) as part of my Artist Rights and Reproductions Database project, which is a part of my mission this semester as the Legal Intern at the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art. I will build a corpus of posts as I build up the database and […]
Archive for September, 2007
The Population Apocalypse
Published by September 30th, 2007 in Miscellaneous, Policy and Mathematics. 5 CommentsTo avoid wasting another 3 hours of my life volunteering in the Shands ER, I brought Beyond Malthus: Ninteen Dimensions of the Population Challenge to horrify me more than the bloody trauma patients being wheeled in by paramedics. Really, purchasing this book was an accident; ISIS said this was required reading for my Thermal Biology […]
There are a few goals common to all subfields of mathematics, and they are intimately related. One is classification of mathematical objects. This is identical to the entomologist classifying species of insects, can we describe all possible objects that exist?
The best known example is the complete classification of finite simple groups. This classification spans of […]
Ruminations on Drug Use after Legalization
Published by September 30th, 2007 in Economics, UES and Entertainment & Culture. 1 CommentOur best debate in UES regarding drug legalization occurred about a year and a half ago, if I recall. Someone, let’s call him JHJ4USA, stood on one side, perhaps with Sammy, while the vast majority of us stood on the other side. We favored legalizing drugs, whether instantly or over a long period of time, […]
Liberals will tell you this is okay. I will tell you this is market demand for a UES school.
Meeting Overview 09/25/07, Part I
Published by September 28th, 2007 in Policy, Education and Meeting Records. 1 CommentThis week, UES welcomed Dr. Dewey of UF’s Bureau of Economic and Business Research to our meeting. He spoke on the topic of Florida’s proposed property tax reforms and their relation to education financing. With his permission and in lieu of our usual meeting minutes, I’ve decided to turn this topic into a pseudo-scholarly project […]
Wal-Mart: More Amazing Than Ever
Published by September 28th, 2007 in Economics, Technology & Innovation and Fluff. 2 CommentsJust a short note that I wanted to share with you all. Some time in February 2007, I enjoyed a stroll through a Wal-Mart here in Gainesville and was overjoyed to find the following innovations:
Mini H&R Block shops
Suits by George
LOTS of people shop in Wal-Mart and almost everyone needs to do their taxes. Might H&R […]
The Economist Commits Act of War
Published by September 27th, 2007 in Economics and Politics. 4 CommentsOnce upon a time, we were all on the same team. We may have had different motivations, as Eric once pointed out on this blog and as can be seen from any given issue of The Economist over the years, but we usually came to the same place, arriving at the same conclusions that would […]
What Gov’t Can Do, We Can Do Better, Part III: Art Trade
Published by September 27th, 2007 in Economics, Entertainment & Culture and Law. 1 CommentWhile we would not wish to live in a world without laws, and a great deal of them are borne of the best intentions, it seems as though sometimes laws have unintended consequences. Broadly speaking, I suspect that the Import/Export laws of various countries throughout the world may also have some unintended consequences. As examples, […]
Registan Round-up
Published by September 26th, 2007 in International Affairs, New Europe and Asia. 0 CommentsThis is no Multum in Parvo, but there are a few blogs that amount to mandatory reading and I think deserve round-ups. Registan, linked from Awkward Utopia, is one such blog. I have made mild criticisms of the tone of the posts in the past (here, here), but the truth is that the quality of […]
Many UES members have gone into the legal profession, including myself. Here’s an interesting note of some importance for UESers and non-UESers alike from the very popular blog Overlawyered:
The market currently reflects a private-public pay gap reflecting the fact that public jobs are generally considered to have better working conditions and that private-sector law firms […]
Several months ago, in a review of Radicals for Capitalism, Tyler Cowen sketches the paradox of libertarianism: how classical liberalism partial triumphs in the 1970s and 80s led to increased government, and then discusses why he thinks “libertarians are becoming intellectually less important.” He also provides an outline of how he would “restructure” classical liberalism. […]
I ever search for ways to get caught up with my blog reading and to avoid serious work and study on days as gorgeous as this Sunday afternoon. And here’s hoping you enjoy the fruits of that labor as much as I have:
The NRO’s Corner reminds us that things can change dramatically in a presidential […]
Meeting Overview 09/18/07
Published by September 19th, 2007 in Americas and Meeting Records. 0 CommentsThis week’s topic: A North American [here, NA for convenience] Union
BL: Whackos on the Right are concerned about a “loss of sovereignty” that would result from a union between Canada, the United States and Mexico. For example, they think NAFTA subsumes our independence.
Mark: How would a NA Union be different from NAFTA?
BL: It would be […]
Hedge Fund Note
Published by September 17th, 2007 in Economics and Technology & Innovation. 2 CommentsIn browsing another economics blog, Ajay Shah’s blog, I came across this post on market regulation. I like some of his comments regarding hedge funds, and it happens to be somewhat on topic with what we discussed last week in UES:
It is useful to have a system of checks and balances whereby the regulated market […]
