Month: September 2021

  • Your Personal Covid Risk

    I’ve spent like eighteen months trying to figure out how to think about and understand this question, in a way that lets me make what seem like sensible, everyday decisions. I think I’ve gotten there, or close. I’m sharing here in case it’s helpful to my gentle readers. I’m fully vaxxed. Here’s a typical, day-to-day…

  • Microfoundations: The Long Con

    I wrote this as a comment response to Ryan Avent’s great post on his Substack blog. (You should subscribe. I did.) I thought I’d share it with my gentle readers here. Lightly edited, including one additional paragraph at the end. ================= Hi Ryan. Great piece, thanks. A few responses: 1. “authors of published papers are…