This is Aesthete's Typepad Profile.
Join Typepad and start following Aesthete's activity
Aesthete
California
Recent Activity
Why is it for sure - have you ever even been to the Netherlands?
Are Americans Better Off Than the Dutch? Yes and No.
Dani Rodrik: Are Americans better off than the Dutch?, by Dani Rodrik: For a lot of questions, comparisons of per-capita GDP yield the correct answer to a first-order of approximation. ... But what about the following question: Are Americans richer than the Dutch? The average income in the U.S....
Government largess includes creating roads and bridges large enough to support your trucks, ports to allow you to get shipments, rivers made navigable for your barges, security for your factories, tax breaks so you will put your factory in a local town, courts so you can fight your legal battles, and foreign aid and diplomacy so you can peacefully trade with other countries, education for the populace so you can find good employees, regulatory departments so you can do business on a level playing field.
Large business gets huge governmental largess - where are the numbers for this?
'Important Reasons to Challenge Professor Mankiw'
You will be shocked by this. Greg Mankiw, in an attempt to serve his political interests, said something misleading on his blog: Measuring Mooching, by Nancy Folbre, Commentary, NY Times: ...Gregory Mankiw .... called attention to a recent Congressional Budget Office report showing that governm...
If you leave roads to the free market, you will quickly learn that the free market isn't interested in roads that get little use, so your rural people would have to stop farming and move into town and use horses to get out to their fields.
'Sliding Into The Great Depression'
Brad DeLong wrote this piece on the costs of long-term unemployment in 1997. (For my taste, he does not put enough emphasis on public jobs programs to bridge the gap and prevent people from becoming tainted by long-term unemployment in the first place. If we had done more, much much more, for e...
Only if they are a needed bridge. Teachers and education are in great need everywhere.
'Sliding Into The Great Depression'
Brad DeLong wrote this piece on the costs of long-term unemployment in 1997. (For my taste, he does not put enough emphasis on public jobs programs to bridge the gap and prevent people from becoming tainted by long-term unemployment in the first place. If we had done more, much much more, for e...
Why the American Idol judges earn every penny they make
Continue reading
Posted Jul 4, 2011 at The Bathroom Wall
Comment
0
Go the fuck to sleep
Continue reading
Posted Jun 25, 2011 at The Bathroom Wall
Comment
1
Why birds boogie to the beat
Continue reading
Posted Jun 19, 2011 at The Bathroom Wall
Comment
0
Popping water balloons in outerspace
Continue reading
Posted Jun 18, 2011 at The Bathroom Wall
Comment
2
How do you legally punish a corporation that murders someone? By the next day, the entire ownership and employees could be someone entirely different.
Corporations don't really exist as there is nothing that has to remain the same from one day to the next other than the piece of paper filed with the government.
A corporation's obligation to obey the law
Stephen Padfield takes issue with my assertion that "Corporations have the same obligation to obey the law as natural persons": To the extent that corporations don't actually exist and thus can't be physically put in jail, this seems not quite correct. Furthermore, the actual human decisionmak...
A sweet Irish melody for St. Patrick's Day
Continue reading
Posted Mar 17, 2011 at The Bathroom Wall
Comment
1
Polarbear cub filmed by mother
Continue reading
Posted Jan 9, 2011 at The Bathroom Wall
Comment
0
Polarbear stalks seal
Continue reading
Posted Jan 8, 2011 at The Bathroom Wall
Comment
0
Proceed with caution
Continue reading
Posted Jan 6, 2011 at The Bathroom Wall
Comment
0
Iceburg Cam bites the dust
Continue reading
Posted Jan 5, 2011 at The Bathroom Wall
Comment
0
Perfect hair
Continue reading
Posted Jan 4, 2011 at The Bathroom Wall
Comment
0
Sea turtle finds a camera
Continue reading
Posted Jan 3, 2011 at The Bathroom Wall
Comment
0
Today I'm an owl
Continue reading
Posted Jan 2, 2011 at The Bathroom Wall
Comment
0
The money tree
Continue reading
Posted Jan 1, 2011 at The Bathroom Wall
Comment
0
Classic Mr. Bean Dance Video
Continue reading
Posted Dec 31, 2010 at The Bathroom Wall
Comment
0
Thinking outside the box
Continue reading
Posted Dec 29, 2010 at The Bathroom Wall
Comment
0
Chicken strips
Continue reading
Posted Dec 28, 2010 at The Bathroom Wall
Comment
0
Invisible Dogs
I love these improve videos Continue reading
Posted Dec 27, 2010 at The Bathroom Wall
Comment
0
I will survive (Jesus says)
Continue reading
Posted Dec 25, 2010 at The Bathroom Wall
Comment
4
Cool Yule!
Very very very cool Christmas Continue reading
Posted Dec 24, 2010 at The Bathroom Wall
Comment
0
It's beginning to look like fishmen
Continue reading
Posted Dec 23, 2010 at The Bathroom Wall
Comment
0
More...
Subscribe to Aesthete’s Recent Activity