Slate carries a fascinating article by Fred Kaplan on Thomas Schelling’s role in the Cold War. I highly recommend Fred Kaplan’s book, The Wizards of Armageddon . It contains an insightful account of the central role the RAND Corporation played in the development of game theory. The RAND Corporation, formerly Air Force Project RAND (for Research
This question came into the Institute from Allen Sukholitsky, a study at Columbia: I had a few exchanges with my professor about the producer/consumer burden of the excise tax and she gave me numbers that appeared to prove that an excise tax can be partially given to the consumer. She gave me 3 combinations of price/quantity to prove the point.
This is the best Batman movie yet . Christian Bale, living up to the promise of his performances in American Psycho and Equilibrium, is the best Batman, hands down. Bale’s Batman is dark, dangerous, disturbed, dehumanized and vengeful—as he was meant to be. As Batman, his voice takes on a guttural, animalistic quality. The new menacing-looking,
Here is my intellectual autobiography , written at the request of Walter Block for the collection that he is putting together.
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