Nathaniel Ward » incentives http://www.nathanielward.net Mon, 22 Aug 2011 12:14:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 What I’m Reading — October 5th http://www.nathanielward.net/2009/10/what-im-reading-october-5th/ http://www.nathanielward.net/2009/10/what-im-reading-october-5th/#comments Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:00:00 +0000 Nathaniel Ward http://www.nathanielward.net/2009/10/what-im-reading-october-5th/
  • Fixing ‘Too Big to Fail.’ “During the crisis it was often said that officials at the Federal Reserve and Treasury would do ‘whatever it takes’ to avoid a Great Depression. Now they must do whatever it takes to address one of the key causes of the financial crisis: the existence of financial institutions that consider themselves too big to fail – but which are run in such a way that they are bound to do so.”
  • Why the Left Won’t Really Tackle Inequality.
  • Crowds Are Really Individuals. “What really happens in crowdsourcing as it is practiced in wide variety of contexts, from Wikipedia to open source to scientific research, is that a problem is broadcast to a large number of people with varying forms of expertise. Then individuals motivated by obsession, competition, money or all three apply their individual talent to creating a solution.”
  • John Thune: Time for a TARP Exit Strategy. “It is time to bring an end to the TARP emergency measures and come up with an exit strategy to get government out of the business of running businesses. The administration owes the American people a timeline for how it will do this.”
  • Nile Gariner on the Great Irish Surrender. “The Irish ratification of the Treaty of Lisbon will pave the way for the biggest erosion of national sovereignty in Europe since the Second World War.”
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  • Tax Burden of Top One Percent Now Exceeds That of Bottom 95 Percent. It’s not bad per se that top earners pay more in taxes, but it’s something we should keep in mind as we consider still more tax increases to ensure “the rich” pay their “fair share.”
  • In Defense of Profits. Yale Law Professor Stephen Carter argues that “high profits are excellent news. When corporate earnings reach record levels, we should be celebrating. The only way a firm can make money is to sell people what they want at a price they are willing to pay. If a firm makes lots of money, lots of people are getting what they want.”
  • Overdoing the Security Details. Might anonymity more effectively protect our leaders than attention-grabbing security arrangements?
  • National Review’s Editors Take on Birth Certificate Conspiracy Theorists.
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