Mike Konczal, Tyler Cowen, and Felix Salmon on NPR’s
Planet Money answer the question: has financial innovation in the last 25
years been positive or negative? Podcast here: http://public.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/pmoney/2009/08/podcast08.17.09.mp3?_kip_ipx=725366478-1250611423
Duke History Professor Laura Edwards guest
blogging at Legal
History Blog on writing The
People and Their Peace: Legal Culture and the Transformation of Inequality in
the Post-Revolutionary South
Via Paul
Caron, idealawg on the "slackoisie"
controversy, and at Legal Blog Watch, Are
Generation Y Lawyers a Bunch of Slackers? More on the complaints of old people regarding the Gen Y work ethic from Above The Law, here.
At Scientific American, "Annoying Habits of College Professors" (circa 1935 to 1937.) (HT: Mark
Thoma)
Jeffrey Toobin at The New Yorker on The Wrong
Guys and USF Law Professor Richard Leo.
And Freakonomics
on “secret menus” at Chinese restaurants.