Some Chicago Boyz know each other from student days at the University of Chicago. Others are Chicago boys in spirit. The blog name is also intended as a good-humored gesture of admiration for distinguished Chicago School economists and fellow travelers.
My daughter sent me the following email: i thought you’d like to know one of my co-workers was reading your blog and taking to me about it, without knowing who you or I were. Then yesterday your blog posting was sent to me on myspace. You’re all over the web and in the middle of … Read more
A&L links to The Common Review, which appears to be the “Great Books Club” official journal- but I may be wrong. It is clearly associated with Penguin. Do the Chicago lads (and lasses, I guess) know anything about the path of the Great Books Clubs from then to now? A&L was looking at the review of a … Read more
When I was in college, one of my professors used to complain that too many of his students had no “number gut.” A number gut is an intuitive feel for the possible magnitude of a particular number that describes a particular phenomenon. A good number gut tells you if the results of some calculation are … Read more
The Iraqi Ministry of Planning and Development Cooperation, in conjunction with the U.N. Development Program, has released an extensive survey of conditions in Iraq, called Iraq Living Conditions Survey 2004 (ILCS). The part of the survey dealing with war related deaths appears to strongly undercut the Lancet Iraqi Mortality Survey (LIMS) of which I have … Read more
Tim Blair discusses the latest UN report, of approximately 24,000 dead as of a year ago. This is from an article on the UN’s analysis of Iraq, “Iraqis Soldier on Without Power, Water, Jobs, Sewers.” (Via Instapundit, then Worstall). Of course, the Times hits a nicely humanist point: Staffan di Mistura, the UN’s No 2 … Read more