Sorry for not doing a Center of Attention yesterday. Yesterday I had (and still have) a fever, headache, cold, etc. so I was not in the best of shapes to post… anything. Anyway, here is today’s Center of Attention:
A Newer World gives us the first ten bills of the 110th Congress.
Brad DeLong: In Condemnation of One-Equation Economics. For those who don’t know what one-equation economics are, Brad gave a short intro:
One-equation economics assumes that certain economic quantities are fixed in stone, examines one equation–usually an accounting identity–and concludes that somebody else’s preferred policies will be ineffective and counterproductive. It does so by ignoring the fact that one of the aims or effects of the somebody else’s policies will be to change the values of the economic quantities that are–by assumption and only by assumption–claimed to be fixed in stone.
As always with Brad, an interesting read.
Dick Polman: Insufficiently conservative candidates, and military musical chairs.
Hilzoy over at Obsidian Wings is proud of the Democrats who – in Hilzoy’s words – “have done more to combat corruption in two days than the Republicans have done in twelve years.”
Sean Aqui at Midtopia on White House secrecy. It seems that the Bush administration has “classified White House visitor logs.”
Kris Sargent at American Future on the essay that appeared at Foreign Policy called why hawks win and Kris responds to Matthew Continetti’s and Matt Yglesias’ take on it.
Lastly, Dave Schuler has been “been trying to puzzle out the meaning of the apparently imminent promotion of Adm. William Fallon to be the new CENTCOM commander and, as such, in charge of the war in Iraq”. He lists four – in his view – possible explanations.
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