It was another abbreviated week due to holidays, but we still had time for our first video post, a celebration of Ronald Coase’s 99th birthday (and a summary of the ideas behind his well-deserved Nobel prize), and a bit of silliness before capping off the week (and the year) with a survey of 2009’s Top Ten posts here at the Big Questions blog.
Today I am off to the annual meeting of the American Economic Association in Atlanta, Georgia. As usual, I’m taking Sunday off, but I’ll be back here Monday, blogging from Atlanta.
Steven:
I think your contention that a character building course such as Shakespeare shouldn’t count for academic credit at colleges and universities needs a fuller discussion rather than the fairly curt dismissal – despite your valuing it yourself – you’ve given the same. Similarly, since you write so lucidly and coherently, I wonder if composition courses that teach argument and the essential principles of the written word are necessarily useless.
Stanley
Stanley Nemeth: I promise to blog about this before the month is out.