Oh, that kind of “stimulus package!” (New
York Post)
More on the economists,
this time Justin Wolfers (Freakonomics),
versus Posner versus Romer (The
Atlantic). Prior Lounge
coverage: Conversations
About Richard Posner And The People He Fights With, and More
Conversations About Richard Posner And The People He Fights With.
You know
times are bad when:
In Tijuana, they cut holes in the
border fence to sell pieces as scrap, not to cross through to the U.S. (Boston
Globe, via Paul
Kedrosky)
Lawyer jokes are no longer funny (Andrew
Sullivan), law students fight back against on-campus recruiters who are too
happy with their newly-discovered market power (Above
The Law), William A. Chamberlain (assistant dean for law career strategy
and advancement at Northwestern) advise law students to accept
their offers quickly, and Elie Mysal (Above
The Law) advises them to accept all of their offers quickly, NALP
police be damned.
Former adjuncts are arrested in the law
school library with multiple guns and 53 rounds of ammunition (ABA
Journal, via Paul
Caron)
First, no shoes. Then bathroom charges. Finally, nothing in seat pockets. Paul Kedrosky asks what’s
next, no humans on planes? (New
York Times)
Insider Selling in August Soars to 30.6
Times Insider Buying, Highest Level Since TrimTabs Began Tracking in 2004. (TrimTabs
via Abnormal
Returns)
Things you
probably didn’t need a study to tell you:
Clumsy or inattentive driving by
motorists caused 90 percent of bike-car crashes in Toronto. (Freakonomics)
Papers in higher-ranked journals get
cited more (Vincent Larivière & Yves Gingras, The impact factor’s
Matthew effect: a natural experiment in bibliometrics, via Paul Caron).
Academics signal incompetence (Crooked
Timber, HT: Jamie Boyle).
Kids lie . . . and fight over toys. (WSJ,
via Tyler
Cowen)
Alice
Ristroph at Concurring Opinions on The
Wheel of Justice.
Jonathan
Adler at The Volokh Conspiracy on Can the FTC Regulate Lawyers As
Creditors?
Jonathan Simon
at PrawfsBlawg on Garrido,
Parole, and the Criminological Fallacy.