John Mullahy
UW-Madison, Univ. of Galway, NBER
C.V.: uwmadison.box.com/s/kkaquhtv5b2og4yo6…
Banner image: Free Clinic (detail), Jacob Lawrence, 1937
- George Stigler and Gary Becker, AER (1977): "De Gustibus Non Est Disputandum" www.jstor.org/stable/1807222
- Simpson published this letter in Nature in 1949.
- #OTD 2019 Edward Simpson d (b 10 Dec 1922) The Simpson of Simpson's paradox (& featured in an episode of The Simpsons). A Bletchley Park code breaker with Alan Turing 1942-5, in 2017, aged 95, he contributed 2 book chapters to The Bletchley Park Codebreakers on the crypt-analytic process Banburismus
- Adajar, Berndt, and Conti discuss commonalities of Simpson's diversity index with measures of concentration (e.g. HHI) familiar to economists. www.nber.org/papers/w26512
- Icarus's contrail
- "Facts alone are wanted in life.... Stick to Facts, sir!" —Dickens, Hard Times
- Paywalling this?! Do better @nejm.org www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
- The Law of Large Conferences: When teams can be in 10th place and still have winning records.
- The Big N
- Principles? Principles?
