stickman's corral

A gunfight of apathetic proportions.

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Happenings

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Given the inadvertent success of my previous post , I've decided to take the philosophical route for this next one: My fifteen minutes ...
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Monday, June 3, 2013

Econ blogosphere comment form

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There is no cake-stagnation  by Tyler Cowen  Here . Paul Krugman writes about the virtues of black forest cake versus regular vanilla s...
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Sunday, June 2, 2013

Are there any four-minute miles in economics?

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3:59.4 Roger Bannister's four laps of the Iffley Road Track on 6 May 1954 have been immortalised in the annals of sporting lore and hu...
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Tuesday, May 21, 2013

I, for one, welcome our new technocratic, environmentalist, socialist overlords

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Any group that successfully manages to perpetrate a hoax involving tens of thousands of individuals from all over the world... would sure be...
Sunday, May 19, 2013

Summer has arrived

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Yesterday. Finally. Please stay!
Friday, May 17, 2013

Video - Fracking chat with David Zetland

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I had a long video chat with David Zetland yesterday, where we discussed fracking, water pollution, property rights and a bunch of related ...
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Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Recent Noonday Tune contributions

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" Junk Bond Trader " -- Elliott Smith " Love Spreads " -- The Stone Roses (Worth clicking through for the descriptio...
Sunday, May 5, 2013

Milestones

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Just clocked up our 30,000th pageview here at The Corral . I feel that this a pretty respectable return for a (very) part-time hobby....
Thursday, May 2, 2013

Fracking and water pollution

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My new article for The Energy Collective is up: Hydraulic Fracking and Water Pollution . There's much debate about whether shale gas ...
Sunday, April 14, 2013

Am I being unreasonable?

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See the back-and-forth  here . Generally, I try to be as civil as possible when it comes to internet debates. (Often is the time that I...
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Grant McDermott is the artist formerly known as Stickman. He originally hails from South(ern) Africa and is currently doing a economics postdoc in California. Prior to this, he spent several years working in the economics and finance sectors in different countries, with some travelling thrown into the mix. His main areas of academic interest are environmental and natural resource economics, but he is easily distracted. He likes long walks on the beach, reasonably priced wine and talking in the third person. Twitter: @grant_mcdermott
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