h.b. flyte

Tag: economics

  • What about an NFT of a tulip?

    “It’s a Ponzi scheme. When there was tulip mania, at least when you lost all your money, you still had a tulip.” Dennis Kelleher I watch cryptocurrency drama from the nosebleed seats. I have some shallow understanding of the system and, I’m not ashamed to say, I rely on my students to fill in some…

  • Looking forward to the “Outliers” episode (there will be one, right?)

    This is classic economics-guy thing, where they act like the narratives that they map onto the data, are themselves just as infallible as the data…The idea that there is always something hidden, right, seems to be lurking here… Peter Shamshiri, “Freakonomics,” If Books Could Kill I’ve read enough college composition history to know that there…