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Sherman Dorn
Outside cultural studies classes, “Love Boat” != instructional material
Apparently a University of Wisconsin-Madison business professor used state funds to purchase DVDs of various television series, including Love Boat, Family Ties, and Get Smart. (Hat tip.) The explanation was that he would use clips “to illustrate aspects of business and management.” Reality check: I use cartoons in lectures. I also buy the materials I […]
And now, a break from the normal type of entry on this blog
Wow (backup for citation, since the Nobel’s servers are slammed right now). In the perennial struggle to decide whether the Nobel Peace Prize should be a Courage Award or a Behavioral Reinforcement for Moving in the Right Direction, the Nobel Peace Prize Committee used the 2009 award for the latter. I think the prize committee […]
First, find me a box of cereal that squirms and drips snot in winter
Congratulations to former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, who knows a critical rule of politics: declare victory whenever you can, no matter whether you were right. I am quite serious about his political acumen: his push of a system that assigned letter grades to schools was ingenious politics. And Bush deserves credit for supporting a research […]
Dozens of Veblens, a handful of Heckmans, not one Keynes
Skimming the Ryan Lizza portrait of Larry Summers, reading Paul Krugman’s focus on the size of the stimulus, and listening to Krugman’s The Return of Depression Economics while driving around Tampa this week makes it clear to me that outside the bubble that is Fox News and talk radio, Krugman, Romer, and a number of […]
We could do without all the excitement, thank you
I was off campus by 12:30 yesterday afternoon, so I didn’t have all the fun of several reports of gunmen on the USF campus in Tampa (student-run USF Oracle, Tampa Tribune, St. Petersburg Times, CNN). As the press representative of the campus police noted, you can’t ignore called-in threats or reports, even if you think […]