Marilynne Robinson - Gilead

leb0wski · 1 month

Dont buy any mutual funds, the 'good' ones are just lucky and wont make you money. Read the literature on this. Start with Eugene Fama

ruff-20 · 1 month

I've a spare copy of Herzog. Do you have anything else by Bellow?

tonynz · 1 month

The Garrison, Pizarro are more upmarket but both excellent

snkys · 2 months

No, the oppposite is true.

snkys · 2 months

But as Greece shows, leaving a strong currency is not easy. Banks collapse

snkys · 2 months

Yes, but now Scotland gets transfers.

snkys · 3 months

Obviously your life expectancy depends on your age, but the piece wasn't going to talk about life expectency given a bunch of age cohorts. It's fair enough to generalize. The salient point is that the average lifespan was 30 years old.

snkys · 3 months

That in no way contradicts the article though. The average age of death was 30 = the average person could expect to die at 30

snkys · 3 months

Well Alms makes a pretty wacky case. You don't have to emphasise darwinian culture to believe in culture.

snkys · 3 months

Factors that modified their behavior - their culture - dont have to be external. Lots of political change around that time in that corner of the world - English civil war, Glorious revolution, revocation of edict of nantes and so on. So in that sense they really do up and decide to act differently; the old political equilibrium broke down and was replaced with something different.

snkys · 3 months

McCloskey tears into Greg Clarke's book in 'bourgeois dignity' - which is available for download by the way as a .doc

snkys · 3 months

Child mortality drags down the average. Once you'd reached a certain age the average lifespan went up dramatically

snkys · 3 months

Stock prices reflect future profits. So if everybody stopped consumption spending entirely, you're staying stock prices would go up?

snkys · 3 months

One thing is for certain: there is no stopping them.

snkys · 3 months

How you do it is secondary. You can buy what you want really. The important thing is that you convince the people that you're determined to hit your target.

And the're a host of reasons why NGDP makes a better target than unemployment, or inflation, or whatever. The right hand column on themoneyillusion will cover that.

snkys

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