equilugubrium

I am thinking of returning to blogging. Apart from having much too much free time on my hands (what with my persistent joblessness and all), the quality of my websurfing has really plummeted over the last half a year. I used to actually learn things on the web. Wasting time on my computer was at least occasionally a springboard for deeper consideration of issues that interested me, such as the absence of rationality in fundamentally important personal decisions (see below). Remember those days? It seems like a long time ago.

In recent years, a growing cadre of economists and psychologists has begun to challenge the economic orthodoxy. Relying on clever laboratory experiments and data from businesses and financial markets, they have not only documented how irrational people become around issues of money and prices, but also demonstrated how predictably irrational they are. (Washington Post)

Maybe I'll keep going. Maybe not.