Jerry Z. Muller

@jerryzmuller

Professor of History, Catholic University of America: independent minded. Author: The Tyranny of Metrics; The Mind and the Market; and more.

Joined December 2014

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  1. Feb 1

    Excellent not only for explaining the meaning of trade deficits, by for demonstrating our dependence on global supply chains. Great antidote to Trumpist trade economics. via

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  2. Feb 1

    New confirmation for "opium of the masses" thesis.

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  3. Feb 1

    Il faut distinguer (ce que la plupart des gens ne font pas!) les métriques standardisées créées et utilisées par les acteurs eux-mêmes, et celles créées et utilisées par des parties extérieures, à des fins de contrôle.

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  4. Jan 31

    In 1950, Ernst Kantorowicz resigned from Berkeley because of its ideological test. Those were the days...

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    Jan 30

    The latest wasteful trend in the corporatization of academic life. A brief read, amusing and depressing, by a distinguished colleague.

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  6. Jan 31

    Read and save for next time you encounter the "triumph of neo-liberalism" meme.

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    Jan 31

    Why stop at education? Let the kid have veto power over all cabinet appointments, ambassadorships, and pardons. -

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  10. Jan 30

    The latest wasteful trend in the corporatization of academic life. A brief read, amusing and depressing, by a distinguished colleague.

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  11. Jan 30

    Important thread on statistics, graphs, and the illusion of reliability.

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  12. Jan 30

    New statistic slays "deaths of despair" meme. A tragedy for scores of recent books and hundreds of op-eds.

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    Jan 26

    Level-headed thread, with much terribleness left unsaid. I fear for the performance of the Trump administration under these circumstances. (Yes yes all circumstances, but especially these)

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    Jan 24

    Evaluators: A thought-provoking read by American historian ⁦⁩ goes through history/trends in metrics, whose interests they serve/do not, unintended consequences, & when/how to use metrics to inform decisions.

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    Jan 23

    THE TYRANNY OF METRICS, now out in Complex Chinese, from Yuan Liou Publishing in Taipei

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  16. Jan 23

    THE TYRANNY OF METRICS, now out in Complex Chinese, from Yuan Liou Publishing in Taipei

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  17. Jan 23

    Yeah. How can you be proud of helping to track down terrorists, criminals, and fraudsters?

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    Jan 23

    If you teach Microeconomics, feel free to use the essays on this page to prepare your lectures or share with your students:

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    China sends University of Minnesota student to jail for six months due to tweets he posted in the US

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  20. Jan 22

    A lot of insight here about the contrast between the benefits of Amazon, Google, Facebook, etc. and how politicians talk about them. A World of Ingratitude

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