Caveat Archos

I wanted to respond to the post someone made a couple weeks ago, about Marxist’s criticism of the class system and what that means for who’s really getting the short end of the deal.
It reminded me a little of a famous quote by Samuelson: “Remember that in a perfectly competitive market, it really does not […]

Sometimes it takes the most extreme circumstances around us for us to stop taking things for granted. This is certainly true with things such as money, the people we love, even public transportation. But in grad school, you learn to appreciate even more fundamental things. Like sleep. And, as I have found out this week, […]

One of the interesting trends in economic history over the last 40 years or so consists in the rise and fall of the union. For example, in America we have seen the percentage of the population that belongs to a union fall from 25% to around 10% between 1970 and today, while the percentage was […]

The Economist has an interesting article this week as part of their “Technology Quarterly” discussing electric-sourced buses in England. “Good idea”, you may think, right? I mean, in an age where the ever-growing evidence for global warming seems more and more convincing,  shouldn’t we be priding ourselves on finding alternative methods to power public transportation? […]

I thought I would do a couple “First Day of…” to reflect both the first day of classes and also teaching. For me, I don’t start teaching until tomorrow but that post may end up being far more interesting than this one.
As I’ve noted in a previous post, UMass does not start out with your […]