Sarah Skwire reflects on “The Martian.”
Matt Palumbo ponders the minimum wage.
Arnold Kling reviews George Akerlof’s and Robert Shiller’s Phishing for Phools. Here’s Arnold’s conclusion:
Akerlof and Shiller are Nobel Laureates, which they earned with previous research. That is what makes this book so disappointing. People may enjoy reading Phishing for Phools, but it is lacking in real intellectual nutrition. It is the literary equivalent of a Cinnabon.