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Kay Bradley

David Brooks Reconsiders 'Bobos in Paradise' - The Atlantic - 0 views

Kay Bradley

Beyond Belief - Clive Crook - The Atlantic - 0 views

  • name a single proposition in all social science that was both true and nontrivial. It took a while, but Samuelson finally thought of a good answer: the principle of comparative advantage
  • The doctrine in question, devised by David Ricardo in 1817, makes a strong claim about the gains that accrue from trade.
  • For nearly 200 years, the principle of comparative advantage, and the ideas about economic policy that flowed from it, divided the world into two camps: those with basic economic literacy, and the rest.
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  • Understanding this idea, and advocating it to the world, was part of what it meant to be an economist—especially an American economist.
  • ately things have changed. Some of America’s most eminent economists, including Samuelson himself, have edged away from that earlier consensus.
  • The shift is both momentous and disturbing. Just why it happened is a mystery.
  • what the principle of comparative advantage does not say.
  • trade between two countries will make both better off so long as each is especially good at making something different from the other
  • absolute advantage
  • there are mutual gains from trade even when one country is better at producing everything. All that matters is that its margin of superior efficiency is greater for some products than for others.
  • comparative advantage
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    Clive Crook weighs in on the Globalization debate.  
Ben Mittelberger

Trans-atlantic vacuum tube train feasible - 13 views

http://www.wpi.edu/Pubs/E-project/Available/E-project-101207-130034/unrestricted/IQP.pdf also really informative

Industrialized Democracies rail high-speed rail

Kay Bradley

Opinion | Trump and His Party Made the Storming of the Capitol Possible - The New York ... - 0 views

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    "For years, there has been a mantra that Republicans have recited to comfort themselves about President Trump - both about the things he says and the support they offer him. Trump, they'd say, should be taken seriously, not literally. The coinage comes from a 2016 article in The Atlantic by Salena Zito, in which she complained that the press took Trump "literally, but not seriously; his supporters take him seriously, but not literally." For Republican elites, this was a helpful two-step. "
diegomartelll

Why There's No Conservative Jon Stewart - The Atlantic - 1 views

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    Very interesting article about why political satire shows tend to lean left, whereas talk radio leans right.
diegomartelll

Why Middle-Class Americans Can't Afford to Live in Liberal Cities - The Atlantic - 1 views

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    Very interesting article about affordable housing tendencies in the most liberal megacities of the US.
Kay Bradley

2011: The Year in Photos, Part 1 of 3 - Alan Taylor - In Focus - The Atlantic - 1 views

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    Part 1 of a 3 part series. Riveting.
cole_reynolds

What Bobby McIlvaine Left Behind - The Atlantic - 2 views

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    This incredibly written piece tells tells the struggle of a family searching for meaning after a member's death on 9/11. However, this is not a story about 9/11. It's a story about grief.
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    I love these types of story articles that focus on a single person during a life changing event.
ershai

America's New Anti-China Alliance - The Atlantic - 0 views

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    Another article that I read on the new USA, UK, Australia military alliance against China, that undermined a French deal.
nicksandford

America Is in the Middle of a Mini-Golden Age of Climate Policy - The Atlantic - 0 views

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    Interesting that they just passed this new piece of climate legislation and no one is speaking about it. Will eliminate chemical from all consumer and industrial products that is 20 times more powerful than carbon dioxide at trapping heat in our atmosphere.
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    I hadn't heard this.
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