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Author Archives: Paul Frijters
Congrats to Card, Angrist, and Imbens!
The Nobel Prize for Economics got announced and I was pleased to hear it went to David Card, Josh Angrist, and Guido Imbens. Among the best picks in years, I think. A lot will be written elsewhere about the many … Continue reading
Posted in Science
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A letter to Scandinavia
Dear Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, and Iceland (Scandinavia), First off, thank you for the last 18 months. Almost alone in ‘the West’, you have either avoided covid madness completely (Sweden) or at least regained your sanity more quickly (the rest). … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
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Where are the Chinese reforms going?
Let us look at the extraordinary non-covid changes now happening in China. The country has been reforming rapidly the last 20 months and I want to muse about the trajectory these reforms are setting China upon. Many commentators see in … Continue reading
Fatalism and counterfactuals in times of lockdowns
One of the more curious phenomena of the last 18 months has been the fatalism on display on both sides of the lockdown divide. In the anti-lockdown brigade fatalism props up in the guise of “this was the inevitable outcome … Continue reading
Posted in Coronavirus crisis, Cultural Critique, Dance, Death and taxes, Life, Philosophy
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On Faust, Lord of the Rings, and lockdowns
A major theme in our book “the Great Covid Panic” (now also on Kindle!) is how a whole layer of politicians, medical advisers, and opportunistic business people grabbed the opportunity for more power and money during the lockdowns of 2020-2021. … Continue reading
Posted in Coronavirus crisis, Dance, Death and taxes, Health, History, Life, Philosophy, Social
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Two summary pieces of HART and SWPR on masks
Since I learned in April 2020 that transmission of covid was mainly via extremely small aerosols, I have regarded face masks as a placebo: they are to aerosols what garden gates are to mosquitoes. Yet, placebos have a role so … Continue reading
Posted in Coronavirus crisis, Death and taxes, Health, IT and Internet, Science
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