Academic

Mid-week Links 8-19

By Kim Krawiec

Mike Konczal, Tyler Cowen, and Felix Salmon on NPR?s Planet Money answer the question: has financial innovation in the last 25 years been positive or negative?  Podcast here:  http://public.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/pmoney/2009/08/podcast08.17.09.mp3?_kip_ipx=725366478-1250611423

Duke History Professor Laura Edwards guest blogging at Legal History Blog on writing The People and Their Peace: Legal Culture and the Transformation of Inequality in the Post-Revolutionary South

Via Paul Caron, idealawg on the "slackoisie" controversy, and at Legal Blog Watch, Are Generation Y Lawyers a Bunch of Slackers?  More on the complaints of old people regarding the Gen Y work ethic from Above The Law, here.

At Scientific American, "Annoying Habits of College Professors" (circa 1935 to 1937.)  (HT: Mark Thoma)

Jeffrey Toobin at The New Yorker on The Wrong Guys and USF Law Professor Richard Leo.

And Freakonomics on ?secret menus? at Chinese restaurants.

Full post as published by The Faculty Lounge on August 19, 2009 (boomark / email).