links for 2007-04-26 Would somebody please tell Jonathan Rauch that if you (a) execute a bunch of people, and (b) can't tell whether each of those you executed was really guilty or not, then (c) one thing you do know is that you have executed some innocent people? This point (tags: 20070424 death_penalty journamalism) Confessions of a Community College Dean: Convergence: We're starting to get more of the traditional-age students who could have chosen to go elsewhere. This is almost certainly a function of economics. Since the first two years of most programs are devote (tags: 20070425 academe education economics) Marginal Utility: Annals of Excessive Compensation: Kudos to Jenny Anderson and Julie Creswell of the NYT for reminding their readers that managers' compensation structure means that they can earn extraordinary compensation in return for middling returns (tags: 20070425 hedge_funds finance labor_economics behavioral_finance) Joe Klein on Richard Cheney: "We have never played politics with Iraq. We didn't schedule the initial authorization vote for just before the 2002 elections. We didn't cook the intel. We had nothing to do with the Mission Accomplished banner. The Navy told (tags: 20070425 bushisms iraq impeach_george_w_bush_now impeachment) Krishna Guha: One of Paul Wolfowitz’s two handpicked deputies, Juan José Daboub, tried to water down references to climate change in one of the World Bank’s main environmental strategy papers, the bank’s chief scientist has told the Financial Times (tags: 20070425 wolfowitz world_bank impeach_george_w_bush_now impeachment climate) David Wessel: "This is the first generation of American-born men who don't have substantially more education than their fathers' generation," says Lawrence Katz, a Harvard University labor economist. American women do have more schooling than their mother (tags: 20070425 katz goldin education economics economic_growth inequality) Martin Manley on Michael Spence and Long-Run Growth: "Rich man he say he would guess/ Money can't buy happiness/ Poor man he say he don't doubt it/ But he'd rather be miserable with than without it." (tags: 20070425 moral_philosophy economic_growth spence) Steve Rosenbusch: Suddenly, Hedge Fund Fees Seem High (tags: 20070425 hedge_funds economics finance behavioral) Justin Fox: The Myth of the Rational Investor: Wall Street's Impossible Quest for Predictable Markets (tags: 20070425 finance behavioral_finance books) Daniel Gross: Pop!: Why Bubbles Are Great For The Economy: Books: Daniel Gross (tags: 20070425 books behavioral_finance finance) Neoconservatism - Wikipedia (tags: 20070425 moral_responsibility intellectual_history politics) Michael Lind: Neoconservatism--the term was Michael Harrington's--originated in the 1970s as a movement of anti-Soviet liberals and social democrats in the tradition of Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Humphrey and Henry ("Scoop") Jackson, many of whom preferred (tags: 20070425 neoconservatives intellectual_history moral_responsibility) Eric Alterman: [Those] whose writings have held up best.. are those who never gave themselves over to the neocon temptation--who never became apologists for Reagan and Bush, much less Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell. Liberal and socialist anticommunists l (tags: 20070425 neoconservatives intellectual_history moral_responsibility) Justin Fox: Cafeteria Neoconservatism: I'll take my neoconservatism with a side order of fries, please (tags: 20070425 neoconservatives intellectual_history moral_responsibility) David Colander: The Making of an Economist, Redux (tags: 20070425 colander economists books) Natalie Angier: The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science (tags: 20070425 science books) Daniel Altman: Connected: 24 Hours in the Global Economy (tags: 20070425 books economics globalization international_finance international_trade) Wall Street Journal: As midterm elections approached last November, federal investigators in Arizona faced unexpected obstacles in getting needed Justice Department approvals to advance a corruption investigation of Republican Rep. Rick Renzi, people clos (tags: 20070425 impeach_george_w_bush_now impeachment)