The episode is titled "your brains & your genes." There's more emphasis on economics than you think.
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Over at Skeptical Inquirer online, two of your ScienceBlogs denizens have teamed up in a major article about the pitfalls in the way the press covers the issue of hurricanes and global warming.
Big Tobacco.
Big Oil.
Big Pharma.
Big Biotech.
Big Nanotech?
Each of these phrases are examples of frame devices, words that act like triggers in activating underlying cultural meanings.
There's a nice post over at "The World in a Satin Bag" on the important things editors do. The emphasis is on fiction publishing, but most of it applies to non-fiction as well:
Razib,
In the course of your conversation with Jake Young you mentioned an economist friend of yours who was working on the relationship between intelligence, time preference and earnings. You also mentioned an economist (the same one?) who was looking to associate genomic studies with economic behavior. Could you provide citations for the relevant articles. I would like to have a look at them.
Thank you.
two different guys. unpublished right now. i would point you to their current pubs, but i'd rather not identify them. i'll link on the blog when the work comes out. as it is i don't even have a working paper in hand, it is just something they told me they were working on.
You both seemed to believe that economic rationality is defined by how you respond to one price signal: that of money. This disregards a host of other things, like the fact that as a scientist you're being paid to play much of the time.
Economics is not really about money and if you read Mises, Hayek, and the other Austrians, they make this clear. Reading Keynes will have you believing that business cycles are inexplicable, saving money is detrimental to society even if it's good for you, and that building pyramids is a legitimate way to "stimulate" a people out of a recession.