Sidney Winter

Economist, Upenn management prof , author, science & sci fi buff, policy wonk. Now favoring dolphins as the best hope for intelligent life in the universe.

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@realDonaldTrump Trump is not in mental shape to be this imaginative. Probably drafted in Moscow as part of the confusion strategy.

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@RpsAgainstTrump Why would he need to blackmail him? Doesn’t he own him already?

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@alfranken ÉI weee

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@DGindis @oliverbeige It was a pleasure seeing this recent flurry of recognition for my dissertation-based paper on "economic natural selection," my 1st effort at taking evolution seriously in economic theory. See Mie Augier's interview in J. Mgmt Inquiry 14 (2005) for the colorful details!

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@LHSummers Have known Larry since he was about 4 feet tall a b

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Greetings to my DRUID friends, meeting in Copenhagen now. I'm wearing my DRUID cap, with the cauldron hook logo, in your honor.

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@oliverbeige Indeed. We can find interesting resonance with that statement in the 2017 book on the death of expertise by @radiofreetom; see chap 4, entitled: "Let me Google that for you: How unlimited information is making us dumber."

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Somehow, that Marshall McLuhan scene in Annie Hall comes to mind here: If only the impeachment managers could pull out James Madison the way Woody Allen pulled out McLuhan! Sigh. But it's hardly needed; the scandal is obvious.

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It is noteworthy and underemphasized that GOP Senators are advancing a "constitutional" argument that is a clear insult to the intelligence of our Founders. Michael Gerson nailed that one: https://t.co/aj6FGWw4V8

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@AshaRangappa_ Agreed, except your "lazy" characterization is way too generous an assessment of the behavior.

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@pontific8 Ah yes, here we are: "In fact, as we shall see, apparent differences between people arise almost entirely from action of the system that they work in, not from the people themselves." Deming, Out of the Crisis, pp. 109-110.

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@pontific8 Sounds a good deal like Dr. Deming, or maybe Juran. Quality Management rediscovered?

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@oliverbeige @DhammaKimpara Good to be reminded again about the great thread on this topic that @oliverbeige produced last year, on which I commented in ... December. How long ago that seems! But scheduling problems don't go away.

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@pontific8 @drfarls Now there's a facet of @pontific8 that I knew nothing about. I have lived in DC a total of about 35 years in 3 episodes, i.e., with 3 "permanent" addresses. Those Arlington cabs ... I wonder ....

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The shade of Midshipman Tobit is smiling tonight. @dandolfa

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Policy issue maybe? One govt error yields tens, maybe hundreds of pieces of fraudulent junk mail while taxpayer is harassed by the private sector? Trees? Fossil fuel? Anger and distrust ... of government? 4/fin

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Last week, a fundraising solicitation arrived from a major civil rights org, addressed to my late wife under her married name. She had contributed before. Unsurprising, you say? Well, read on. 1/n

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Nope. So she quit. And all these years... So, junk mail. Also in the past week, at least 44 pieces of fraudulent mail mimicking the DC tax authority, triggered by an error on the authority's part concerning the application of an overpayment on one year's return. 3/n