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21 Aug 2011, 3:42 pm by Kenneth Anderson
(Kenneth Anderson) H/T Jonathan Zittrain, this new article in MIT’s Technology Review, The Cause of Riots and the Price of Food.Marco Lagi and buddies at the New England Complex Systems Institute in Cambridge, say they’ve found a single factor that seems to trigger riots around the world.This single factor is the price of food. [read post]
21 Aug 2011, 2:13 pm by Kenneth Anderson
(Kenneth Anderson) Tyler Cowen’s column in the New York Times today takes up the disturbing problem of productivity that seems not just to be growing more slowly, but actually weakening:The overlooked piece of news came this month from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. [read post]
20 Aug 2011, 4:36 pm by Kenneth Anderson
(Kenneth Anderson) Glenn Reynolds points us to an article by Steve Cohen in the Daily Beast on increasing numbers of out-of-state students accepted at state universities. [read post]
20 Aug 2011, 10:47 am by Kenneth Anderson
(Kenneth Anderson) This is a further comment to my two posts below on the rating agencies, here and here. [read post]
19 Aug 2011, 9:50 am by Kenneth Anderson
(Kenneth Anderson) Update 2:  Please see the further comment above, in its own separate post, as well as this earlier one. [read post]
19 Aug 2011, 9:23 am by CJLF Staff
" Hat tip to Kenneth Anderson at The Volokh Conspiracy for the link. [read post]
18 Aug 2011, 3:06 pm by Kenneth Anderson
(Kenneth Anderson) One way to carve up the categories of failure of past and continuing financial regulation is complexity, conflicts, and complacency. [read post]
18 Aug 2011, 2:15 pm by Kenneth Anderson
(Kenneth Anderson) From the Guardian:Monks at the 15th century church of San Salvatore al Monte, which was a favourite of Michelangelo, were irritated when a rare and expensive bible disappeared from the lectern, and they flew off the handle when a replacement bible donated by a worshipper also went missing and within a few hours. [read post]
17 Aug 2011, 11:16 am by Kenneth Anderson
(Kenneth Anderson) Amid the debates over rising student loan debt that is undischargeable in bankruptcy, I have not seen a lot of public discussion over provisions of law that provide special forgiveness benefits to those who go to work for government or nonprofits. [read post]
16 Aug 2011, 8:02 pm by Glenn Reynolds
KENNETH ANDERSON: Q: What Causes Professors to Think About the Business Model of Higher Education? [read post]
16 Aug 2011, 6:23 am by Kenneth Anderson
(Kenneth Anderson) A:  When they send a child off to college.I don’t know who first said that, but it’s true in my case. [read post]
16 Aug 2011, 1:25 am by Jacob Katz Cogan
Kelly, Introduction: Governing Civil SocietyShamima Ahmed, The Impact of NGOs on International Organizations: Complexities and Considerations Kenneth Anderson, “Accountability” as “Legitimacy”: Global Governance, Global Civil Society and the United Nations Steve Charnovitz, The Illegitimacy of Preventing NGO ParticipationLloyd Hitoshi Mayer, NGO Standing and Influence in Regional Human Rights Courts and CommissionsOonagh B. [read post]
8 Aug 2011, 6:17 pm by Nonprofit Blogger
Here are the authors, titles, and abstracts: Kenneth Anderson (American University), 'Accountability' as 'Legitimacy': Global Governance, Global Civil Society and the United Nations This essay is... [read post]
27 Jul 2011, 4:09 pm by Kenneth Anderson
(Kenneth Anderson) Returning to the debt negotiations for a moment. [read post]
26 Jul 2011, 10:35 am by Kenneth Anderson
by Kenneth Anderson Harlan Cohen raises an important caution against being swept up in the attraction, indeed intellectual comfort, of an intellectual grand narrative that can give apparent coherence to a topic as broad-ranging and heterogeneous as international law in the Supreme Court. [read post]
26 Jul 2011, 7:24 am by Jonah Gelbach
Over at The Volokh Conspiracy, Kenneth Anderson has a post asking what would happen if Congress increased the debt ceiling so high that it were effectively infinite. [read post]
25 Jul 2011, 9:01 pm by Kenneth Anderson
(Kenneth Anderson) One additional comment about the nature of consensus. [read post]
25 Jul 2011, 8:37 pm by Kenneth Anderson
(Kenneth Anderson) Watching the current negotiations unfold, I remain puzzled by a couple of things.First, what would happen — purely hypothetically, obviously — if the Republicans suddenly announced that they would support raising the debt ceiling to a trillion trillion dollars — infinity. [read post]