distribution of wealth

On fairness (and how we treat the utility monster).

How do you measure someone’s capacity for joy? And what does that say about our opiate epidemic?

February 17, 2017

Frank Brown Cloud

All posts, Evolutionary biology

animal welfare, Betham, competetive equilibrium, distribution of resources, distribution of wealth, economics, equality, evolution, fairness, heroin, heroin epidemic, human evolution, mass incarceration, Milton Friedman, moral philosophy, natural selection, negative externalities, opiate abuse, opiate epidemic, opportunity, Pareto optimal, Pareto optimality, political philosophy, survival of the fittest, tax policy, utilitarian, utilitarianism, utility monster, utility theory, War on Drugs
On Robert Gordon’s ‘The Rise and Fall of American Growth.’

What if technological innovations are a cause of, not a solution to, our post-1970s economic morass?

September 2, 2016

Frank Brown Cloud

All posts, Economics, Parenting

Amazon, artificial intelligence, automation, CAFO, clean water, concentration of wealth, delivery drones, distribution of wealth, driverless cars, economics, electric appliances, factory farming, feminism, future technologies, GDP, GDP is not an effective measure of quality of life, GDP undercounts the value of caregiving, guaranteed basic income, Impossible Foods, increasing gains to capital, invention, labor versus capital, negative tax, no one’s choices should be curtailed because of gender, parenting, Pat Brown, pessimism, poverty causes stress, productivity, quality of life, reparations, Rise and Fall of American Growth, Robert Gordon, robotics, slow growth, social breakdown, Steven Rattner, technological progress, the value of a stay-at-home parent, wealth tax, William D. Nordhaus, women’s work has been historically undervalued
On crashing waves of violence and Paul Kingsnorth’s ‘The Wake.’

People are raving about the new film “Racing Extinction.” What might impending extinction feel like for those last few survivors?

December 4, 2015

Frank Brown Cloud

All posts, Evolutionary biology

ancient humans, Beowulf, CK Scott Moncrieff, distribution of wealth, economics, extinction, Homo sapiens, human evolution, inequality, land holdings, land rights, Marcel Proust, mass extinction, Neanderthals, Norman Invasion, Old English, Paul Kingsnorth, Sapiens, Seamus Heaney, Stonehenge, The Wake, Translation, wealth, Yuval Noah Harari
On hunting.

I saw many posts on the internet from people upset about hunting, specifically hunting lions. And eventually I watched the Jimmy Kimmel spot where he repeatedly maligns the Minnesota hunter for shooting that lion, and even appears to choke up near the end while plugging a wildlife research fund that you could donate money to. And,…

August 6, 2015

Frank Brown Cloud

All posts

aid to developing nations, an open invitation to stop by for dinner, animal cognition, animal intelligence, animal welfare, antibiotic resistance, antibiotics, Barbara Ehrenreich, barbecue, Blood Rites, Bloomingveg, CAFOs, captive-animal hunting, Cecil, Cecil the lion, cognitive dissonance, concentrated animal feeding operation, conservation, directed evolution of virulent bacteria, distribution of wealth, do humans need to eat meat, dosing farm animals with subtherapuetic levels of antibiotics is evil, Ducks Unlimited, eat your ethics, Ecology, environment, environmentalism, ethical exemptions, ethics, ethics for sale, factory farming, food, foolhardy farming practices, Goodwell Nzou, guns, habitat loss, habitat maintenance, hunting, hunting in state parks, hunting license, hypocracy, intensive animal farming, Jimmy Kimmel, local food movement, meat, medical discoveries, monetary aid, money, nature, Origins and History of the Passions of War, overpopulation, people are more important than lions, philosophical consequences of being born a heterotroph, pigs, pigs are smarter than lions, poaching, poverty, reparations, running terrified during deer season, subtherapuetic levels of antibiotics, terror, the coming health crisis, trophy hunting, vegan, vegetables, vegetarian, wasting food, wetland preservation, zoo abuses

distribution of wealth

On fairness (and how we treat the utility monster).

On Robert Gordon’s ‘The Rise and Fall of American Growth.’

On crashing waves of violence and Paul Kingsnorth’s ‘The Wake.’

On hunting.