October 2009
3 posts
How to Get More Bicyclists on the Road →
Cyclists annoy me writ large, but it’s really fascinating to me that in America there is a large gender disparity in cyclists that doesn’t exist in Europe.
ON THINKING: FOXES OR HEDGEHOGS? →
Are there enough polymaths in our society?
The Ostrom Nobel →
Key paragraph:
“[This is] a vote in favor of detailed, working-from-the-ground-up, empirical work, which doesn’t rely on sharply contoured theoretical simplifications and flashy statistical techniques so much as the accumulation of good data, which reflects the messiness of the real social institutions from which it is gathered. “