Tag: David Brooks
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What Data Can’t Do – David Brooks
New York Times: What Data Can't Do – David Brooks … Data struggles with the social. Your brain is pretty bad at math (quick, what’s the square root of 437), but it’s excellent at social cognition. People are really good at mirroring each other’s emotional states, at detecting uncooperative behavior and at assigning value to…
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The Collective Turn – David Brooks
New York Times: The Collective Turn – David Brooks David Brooks captures the essence of my perspective once again. "… I am not a liberal like Obama, so I was struck by what he left out in his tour through American history. I, too, would celebrate Seneca Falls, Selma and Stonewall, but I'd also mention…
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Bryan Caplan on Romney’s 47% Remark
Econolog: Will False Belief in the SIVH Destroy Romney's Candidacy? Bryan Caplan writes: Many people believe that voters' positions are determined by their objective self-interest. I call this the SIVH – the Self-Interested Voter Hypothesis. A massive body of evidence shows that the SIVH is just plain wrong. Self-interest has no more than sporadic marginal…
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The Opportunity Gap
New York Times: The Opportunity Gap David Brooks … Equal opportunity, once core to the nation’s identity, is now a tertiary concern. If America really wants to change that, if the country wants to take advantage of all its human capital rather than just the most privileged two-thirds of it, then people are going to…
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The Two Economies
New York Times: The Two Economies David Brooks … His [Tyler Cowan] work leaves the impression that there are two interrelated American economies. On the one hand, there is the globalized tradable sector — companies that have to compete with everybody everywhere. These companies, with the sword of foreign competition hanging over them, have become…
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Where Are the Liberals? (David Brooks)
New York Times: Where Are the Liberals? Why aren’t there more liberals in America? It’s not because liberalism lacks cultural power. Many polls suggest that a majority of college professors and national journalists vote Democratic. The movie, TV, music and publishing industries are dominated by liberals. It’s not because recent events have disproved the liberal…
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Why this is not a new Progressive era.
New York Times: Midlife Crisis Economics David Brooks … Members of the administration have now dropped the New Deal parallels. But they have started making analogies between this era and the progressive era around the turn of the 20th century. … …First, the underlying economic situations are very different. A century ago, the American economy…
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The Milquetoast Radicals – David Brooks
New York Times: The Milquetoast Radicals … Take the Occupy Wall Street movement. This uprising was sparked by the magazine Adbusters, previously best known for the 2004 essay, “Why Won’t Anyone Say They Are Jewish?” — an investigative report that identified some of the most influential Jews in America and their nefarious grip on policy.…
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“The Magic Lever” – David Brooks
New York Times: The Magic Lever … These three groups — bankers, Democratic Keynesians and staunch Republicans — have one thing in common: They all believe they have identified the magic lever. They believe they can control their economic fate. Some of us do not believe there is a magic lever. Deficit spending stimulates growth,…