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Comment on An Obamanable Housing Plan by The Fed Hates Renters Too | FavStocks

The Fed Hates Renters Too | FavStocks — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 08:11:55 +0000

[...] renting. Aside from its efficiency effects, this of course has huge distributional consequences. I wrote about this in 2009 in the context of the bailouts of Fannie and Freddie, moves to prevent foreclosures, and [...]

Comment on Perceptions of Opportunities – Part 2 by Peter Lewin

Peter Lewin — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:36:54 +0000

Fred, thanks for the clarification. I was interpreting Venkataramin et. al.’s depiction of Simon in their article at face value.

What you say about Simon’s original intention makes sense and is more interesting.

Comment on Perceptions of Opportunities – Part 2 by Fred

Fred — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:26:41 +0000

I think you are fundamentally misconstruing Simon’s notion of design science. Mostly, it is an argument about what academics in professional schools ought to do, which is teach our students how to design products, relationships, and institutions and put those designs into effect. But what academics in management schools do is study what managers and enterprises do. Unlike our counterparts in medical and engineering schools we don’t actually design things. Consequently, we cannot show our students how to do it — unless we rethink what it we are trying to do. To a considerable degree this is the implicit logic underlying Harvard’s case method and the practice exercises we set up for our students, but both, I believe, require far greater attention to matters of dialogue and rhetoric than we typically emphasize — to bricolage, testing, and persuasion.

My colleagues and I spend a lot of time trying to help our students learn how to do these things, but it is hard and they find it a lot more frustrating than rote learning.

Comment on An Obamanable Housing Plan by The Fed Hates Renters Too | The Beacon

The Fed Hates Renters Too | The Beacon — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:06:58 +0000

Comment on Why Do Sociologists Lean Left — Really Left? by David Hoopes

David Hoopes — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:12:41 +0000

Well, I don’t know if I agree with Peter that Dems were demonstrating fiscal constraint and a taste for decentralization back in 2006 (I hope you did notice this post is six years old). However, at the time, many Republicans had gotten into some wild spending and were supporting trade barriers. I seem to remember President Bush leading the way on steel tariffs. I think one of the big reasons Republicans lost congress is that their fiscal core-supporters felt that Republican politicians had abandoned their economic principals. To wit: the Tea Party has criticized many Republicans for their weak stance on free markets and weak will on government spending. And, I don’t think that many of the current presidential candidates seem that strong in terms of free markets.

P.S. Peter is not even close to being an idiot. Maybe a spaz.

Comment on Why Do Sociologists Lean Left — Really Left? by Ron Gardner

Ron Gardner — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:42:12 +0000

LMFAO. Peter Klein is a real idiot, just like all the left-wing sociology professors I studied under at UCSD, 1969-1973. (I also studied philosophy under Herbert Marcuse.) Anyone with half a brain knows that it is Demos, not true Repubs, who are into building a leviathan central government. What the Demos are into now is liberal fascism (and the fact that Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act and never repealed the Patriot Act proves it), but the brain-dead libs are incapable of understanding what Ayn Rand made clear: fascism, like all forms of totalitarianism, is left-wing in nature. A majority-rule democracy is the epitome of fascism: a system in which putatively inviolable constitutional rights are are subordinated to the whims of the majority.

Comment on Reference Bloat by Reference Bloat in Management Journals Meets its Match « Truth on the Market

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:55:43 +0000

[...] Peter Klein offers up some thoughts on “reference bloat” in academic journals: Nature News (via Bronwyn Hall): One in five academics in a variety of social science and business fields say they have been asked to pad their papers with superfluous references in order to get published. The figures, from a survey published today in Science, also suggest that journal editors strategically target junior faculty, who in turn were more willing to acquiesce. [...]

Comment on Perceptions of Opportunities – Part 2 by JC

JC — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:45:25 +0000

On my website – jcpender.com – there’s a little something (72 pp) on the life and work of Herbert Simon that should be coming out later this year. Scroll down on the ‘papers’ page.

Comment on Reference Bloat by Rafe

Rafe — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:41:14 +0000

What about the demand to have more citations to papers in that particular journal!

Comment on Perceptions of Opportunities – Part 2 by Peter Lewin

Peter Lewin — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:59:44 +0000

Yes, I downloaded it, but have not yet read it. More reason to now.