May 5 2020
On Friday, I received Jason Brennan's new Good Work If You Can Get It: How to Succeed in Academia. It's fantastic! I already have my dream job for life, and I still couldn't put it down. Brennan calmly and crisply cuts through piles of misconceptions, lame rationalizations, and mountains of Social Desirability Bi...
May 5 2020
Mariana Mazzucato is now advising the Italian prime minister on the transformation of the economy in a “green” direction and how to move out of the crisis produced by COVID-19 lockdowns. In a recent interview (alas gated version here) Mazzucato advanced the idea that government aid to businesses should hence be ...
May 5 2020
Last month, Professor Syed Kamall interviewed me on the COVID-19 crisis. It was posted on Friday. It's here. I did make one mistake about Dr. Helen Chu. See if you can spot it. I had got the story right earlier here.
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