A Lull
Sleepsong by Secret Garden
Today marks the 11th anniversary of the first post on this blog. I have written an anniversary post every year since then:
This past year has been a lull in my blogging. My research on well-being with Dan Benjamin, Ori Heffetz, Kristen Cooper and an able team of RAs (see “Pushing Aside GDP for a Measure of Human Well-Being Turns Out to be Very, Very Difficult. Ask Dan Benjamin”) has heated up, and in my personal life, a move from a suburb of Boulder into Boulder —and other similarly arduous but benign changes just as important—have taken up a lot of my time. I plan to write an autobiography as soon as I retire; I’ll give the full story then.
Despite not putting a high priority on blogging this past year after an intense decade of blogging before that, I count 26 posts, interviews or tweetstorms this past year that are substantial and not just a pointer to someone else’s work. Here they are, in reverse chronological order:
Posts Useful for Teaching (bibliographic post)
A Wide-Ranging and Thorough Interview of Miles by K. V. Krishna
Nominal Illusion: Are People Understanding Real Versus Nominal Interest Rates?
Donald Yacovone: How Ubiquitous History Textbooks Taught White Supremacy
Current Information Provision is Inadequate: Let's Put Salient Warnings on Alcoholic Beverages
A Linear Model for the Effects of Diet and Exercise on Health is a Big Advance over Popular Thinking
Mitra Kalita asks Miles Kimball, Cecilia Rouse and Daniel Zhou about the Coming Recession
What David Laibson and Andrei Shleifer are Teaching for Behavioral Economics—Jeffrey Ohl
Some Low-Hanging Fruit for Government Policy: Paying Benefits and Wages to Low-Income Folks Weekly
Price Stickiness Endangers Scientific Experiments Using Helium
Gradually Growing Sophistication in How Colleges are Evaluated
The Federalist Papers #55: How Big Should the House of Representatives Be?
Statistical interpretation and monetary policy are continuing themes. My favorite of all of these pieces is the Hexapodia podcast with Brad DeLong and Noah Smith.
Unfortunately, the next year looks very crowded for me as well. At some point, I hope to get out of the woods and then restart this blog on Substack.