Median Voter Guy, Poltics from the Middle

Median Voter Guy

Duped: Truth-Default Theory and the Social Science of Lying and Deception (2020), Tim Levine. Gladwell's Talking to Strangers used...

Veblen goods are luxury products (services also apply) where quantity goes up with price, contradicting the usual interpretation of...

After a couple of weeks of House impeachment hearings, what stands out to me is the professionalism of the foreign service officers (also...

An article in the paper ("A Reverb Epidemic" by Thi Nguyen) caught my attention, considering "radical polarization." Politics jumps out...

After Talking to Strangers, it's time to reread Gladwell's earlier books and add some analysis. A basic characteristic of Gladwell's...

The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir (2019), Samantha Power. Detailed memoir of her life, parts of it relevant to a MVG perspective....

Becoming (2018), Michelle Obama, interesting and inspirational memoir by the former First Lady. She grew up in a working class home in...

Information Wars: How We Lost the Global Battle Against Disinformation & What We Can Do About It (2019), Richard Stengel. Stengel was...

Wall Streeters: The Creators and Corruptors of American Finance (2017), Edward Morris. Covers 14 men with influence on 20th century...

After South Park was banned by China for criticism on censorship, creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone issued the following "official...

Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About The People We Don't Know (2019), Malcolm Gladwell. Gladwell is on my list to read as soon...

My blinders hypothesis is still alive and well. I'm an accountant, but much of my training is in economics (plus I have a masters degree...

Reading the Sunday editorials, I was struck by the gratuitous insults using a single modifier, usually an adjective. It started with a...

Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception (2015), George Akerlof and Robert Shiller (AS), considering behavioral...

In today's column "The Land of the Free and the Home of the Rent-seekers" Will attacks Chicago restaurants as rent seekers, which he...