Assorted Links
July 4, 2012
1. Links on the Court case and health care.
2. Mesofacts – Facts can change.
4. Williamson on NGDP targeting. Sumner responds. Cowen comments.
5. Friendship is Witchcraft
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1. Links on the Court case and health care.
2. Mesofacts – Facts can change.
4. Williamson on NGDP targeting. Sumner responds. Cowen comments.
5. Friendship is Witchcraft
I’m confused how his mesofacts are different from the temperature or stock market closings that he tries to contrast them with? *SHOULDN’T* the population of the earth, etc change?
Population is a bad example, because it changes every second. The brontosaurus one was probably better. Some facts that we think are permanent are not. Medicine is full of mesofacts, such as the consensus on salt, fat and alcohol have changed in the last 10 years. I don’t think there’s any normative judgement in the article, it’s just maybe, trying to raise awareness of slowly changing facts, perhaps?