all posts on October 22nd, 2006


On your marks, get set, go home

Will Wilkinson criticises the happiness movement.

Crucially, there is no limit to the possible forms of excellence. So, while the number of positions on any single dimension of status may be fixed, there is no reason why dimensions of status cannot be multiplied indefinitely. It does not in fact require a violation of mathematical law to […]

Society of Real Economists

I’m not sure if I’m in. I don’t have a problem with the first two requirements, but to say that motivations and intentions are irrelevant is a bit too far for me.
This is equivalent to saying any choice from a menu need only be internally consistent; because motivations and the like are external to the […]