Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Best Self-Help Lecture for the Year

Robin Hanson talks at OSCON 2007- via Arnold Kling.

Some interesting ideas from Hanson;
Tax Leisure with Time Audits
The "Would Have Banned" Label
Regressions of Student Evaluations/Grades
Sources on Reforming Social Institutions


His Preferred Microeconomics Textbooks? (I'm just listing from some of the courses he has taught- is he biased?)
Robert S. Pindyck and Daniel L. Rubinfeld, Microeconomics (chapters 1 to 5 available online)
David M. Kreps, A Course in Microeconomic Theory,
Walter Nicholson. Microeconomic Theory: Basic Principles and Extensions
Edgar K. Browning, Mark A. Zupan, Microeconomics: Theory & Applications,
David D. Friedman, Hidden Order, The Economics of Everyday Life
Hal Varian, Intermediate Microeconomics, A Modern Approach,


Related;
Hanson on Health

2 comments:

Robin Hanson said...

Seems the word "selp" is up for grabs. I wonder what we should define it to mean.

Marshall Jevons said...

Thanks Robin- corrected the mistake. And thanks for an interesting speech though would have liked to hear a longer discussion.