Articles by Jim Manzi
2012
January
18
New Ventures, Too by Jim Manzi11
Romney & Bain: Intention versus Method by Jim ManziRe: Apple’s Cash by Jim Manzi
10
Blogging About Business versus Doing Business by Jim Manzi04
Antitrust as Self Medication by Jim Manzi2011
December
21
Re: Gene to Phene by Jim Manzi20
What Is a Gene “For” by Jim Manzi16
Storytime with Joseph Stiglitz by Jim Manzi07
How Elite Business Recruiting Really Works by Jim ManziNovember
30
Nobody Ever Went Broke with Money in the Bank by Jim Manzi28
Re: Wealth, Innovation and "Job Creation" by Jim Manzi24
Do Job Creators Matter? by Jim Manzi23
Lean Six Sigma as a Risky Dog-Whistle for Gingrich by Jim Manzi22
Back Off Man, We’re Scientists by Jim ManziSeptember
15
Me, Inc. by Jim ManziAugust
24
The Boundaries of Science by Jim ManziJune
28
“I just stay in bed if no one calls me” by Jim Manzi24
A U.S. Manufacturing Strategy, Part 2 by Jim Manzi23
A U.S. Manufacturing Strategy, Part 1 by Jim Manzi22
Re: Goodbye H&H by Jim Manzi06
The GM Bailout and Telepathic Dogs by Jim Manzi02
The Inherently Ideological Evaluation of the GM Bailout by Jim ManziMay
20
The Generally Sensible Parisian reaction to DSK by Jim ManziApril
29
A Moment of Communion with Paul Krugman by Jim Manzi26
A Gas Tax: Number vs. Words, ctd. by Jim Manzi25
A (Very Qualified) Defense of Some Corporate Jargon by Jim ManziA Gas Tax: Numbers vs. Words by Jim Manzi
18
A Very Good Question about Our National Debt by Jim Manzi15
Controlling the National Debt: Chess, Not Checkers by Jim Manzi04
It’s a Jersey Thing by Jim ManziMarch
22
I Don’t Think These Count by Jim Manzi21
We Would Lose an Arms Race with the Whole World by Jim Manzi19
Jim and Noah’s Excellent Adventure, Part 1 by Jim Manzi18
Is Economics a Science? by Jim Manzi17
Common Misconceptions of Economists by Jim Manzi04
Would Universal Healthcare Coverage Actually Improve Health? by Jim ManziFebruary
25
How Can We Know What Public Sector Wages Should Be? by Jim Manzi23
Are Wisconsin Public Sector Workers Underpaid?, ctd. by Jim Manzi22
Are Wisconsin Public Employees Underpaid? by Jim Manzi15
Against the Negative Income Tax by Jim Manzi09
The Eternal Sunshine of the Entrepreneurial Mind by Jim ManziRe: Evaluating Teachers by Jim Manzi
07
Some Unsettling Observations about Teacher Evaluations by Jim Manzi2010
December
13
Unbundle the Welfare State by Jim Manzi09
Can We Prove That Marriage Improves Behavior? by Jim Manzi07
A Reply to Noah Millman by Jim Manzi06
Science, History and Economics by Jim ManziNovember
22
Economics and Abstraction, ctd. by Jim Manzi19
Economics and Abstraction, ctd. by Jim Manzi18
Economics and Abstraction by Jim ManziOctober
29
Re: The “Liberal Gene” by Jim Manzi26
Our So-Called Experts by Jim Manzi20
Has Medical Science Discovered Anything Useful? by Jim Manzi18
X Is Used to Represent an Unknown by Jim Manzi13
Just a Mess by Jim ManziSeptember
27
Cheeseburger in Parisdise by Jim ManziAugust
24
Stimulus Debate with Jon Chait by Jim Manzi19
Stimulus Humility by Jim Manzi04
Round-Up of Some Reactions to Experiments and Social Science by Jim Manzi03
Knowledge and Prejudice by Jim Manzi02
Putting Social Science Claims to the Test: Stimulus Edition by Jim ManziRe: Innovation and the Gas Tax by Jim Manzi
July
29
Re: Innovation Is the Only Answer by Jim Manzi26
Ross Douthat and the Fight Against Cap-and-Trade by Jim Manzi19
John Zogby's Open Letter to Nate Silver by Jim Manzi15
Climate Storm by Jim ManziJune
24
In-House Critic by Jim Manzi14
Career Choices by Jim Manzi07
Four Excellent Ideas on Education, but How Do We Make Them Happen? by Jim ManziApril
28
The Non-Paradox of Choice by Jim Manzi26
Esther Duflo and the Experimental Revolution in Social Science by Jim ManziRe: Reply to Jim Manzi by Jim Manzi
22
Re: The Real Epistemic Closure by Jim Manzi21
Liberty and Tyranny and Epistemic Closure by Jim Manzi20
Krugman on Climate III: Resorting to Pascal’s Wager by Jim Manzi19
Krugman on Climate II: Assuming a Can Opener by Jim ManziEmployers versus Colleges by Jim Manzi
18
James et Jim by Jim Manzi16
Krugman on Climate I: The Cost – Benefit Analysis by Jim ManziJanuary
29
Delayed Reaction to the State of the Union by Jim Manzi21
President Obama’s Excellent New Banking Proposal by Jim Manzi20
The Implications of Massachusetts by Jim Manzi13
Omnibus Reply to Criticisms of Keeping America’s Edge UPDATE by Jim ManziOmnibus Reply to Criticisms of Keeping America’s Edge by Jim Manzi
11
Keeping America’s Edge, Yet Again by Jim Manzi08
Keeping America’s Edge, ctd. 2 by Jim Manzi07
Keeping America’s Edge, ctd. by Jim Manzi06
More Reactions to Keeping America’s Edge by Jim Manzi2009
December
30
More on Keeping America's Edge by Jim Manzi19
In a Land without Minarets by Jim Manzi14
Keeping America's Edge by Jim Manzi12
Hot Air on Climategate and Copenhagen by Jim ManziNovember
25
Hacked Climate Science Emails by Jim Manzi09
Climate Change Discussion by Jim ManziOctober
20
Whistling Past the Graveyard by Jim ManziSeptember
26
Paul Krugman. Pot. Kettle. Black. by Jim Manzi17
Talk vs. Action by Jim Manzi11
Does Evolution Preclude Teleology? by Jim Manzi08
Why Don't I Get It on Evolution? by Jim Manzi07
In Defense of Jim Manzi against Jerry Coyne by Jim Manzi03
The Paradox of Libertarianism by Jim Manzi02
In Defense of Robert Wright against Jerry Coyne by Jim Manzi01
The Socialism Implicit in the Social Cost of Carbon by Jim ManziAugust
31
Does Universal Health Care Reduce Employment? by Jim ManziWhat I Didn't Do on My Summer Vacation: Blog by Jim Manzi
July
25
Has Global warming Stopped?, ctd. by Jim Manzi24
Has Global Warming Stopped? by Jim Manzi15
Is Inequality a Problem? by Jim Manzi14
Bienvenue, ctd. by Jim ManziThat Dog Schwenkler Beat Me To It by Jim Manzi
09
Government Motors, ctd. by Jim Manzi07
Models, Models Everywhere And No One Stops to Think by Jim ManziJune
30
Money is Not the Measure of All Things by Jim Manzi29
What Are The Stakes in The Climate Change Debate? by Jim ManziI'm Not Worthy by Jim Manzi
27
Re: What's The Point? by Jim Manzi26
Re: How Much Would You Pay for Cap-and-Trade? by Jim ManziThe Visual Display of Quantitative Information II by Jim Manzi
24
Dear Member of Congress: Why You Should Vote Against Waxman-Markey by Jim Manzi23
Prediction Model Bias by Jim ManziClimate Change Back-and-Forth by Jim Manzi
22
Nice Try II, ctd. by Jim ManziNice Try II by Jim Manzi
19
Nyet So Fast by Jim Manzi18
The Deep Cynicism of Waxman-Markey by Jim Manzi15
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised by Jim Manzi11
C-Span Shows Horror Movie by Jim Manzi09
Matt Yglesias, Making Sense by Jim Manzi06
Knowledge is for Sissies by Jim ManziThe Slow Road to Serfdom by Jim Manzi
05
Discount Rates and Academic Mau-Mauing by Jim ManziCEOs Matter by Jim Manzi
03
Liberty, Fraternity, Inequality by Jim Manzi02
GM's Bankruptcy by Jim Manzi01
Sotomayor, Wisdom and Context by Jim ManziMay
29
Do Credit Cards Really Encourage Spending? by Jim Manzi28
Credit Cards Don’t Kill Credit Ratings, People Do by Jim Manzi27
Management by Headline II by Jim Manzi22
Yet More on Waxman-Markey by Jim Manzi21
The Emperor's New Cap-and-Trade Clothes by Jim Manzi20
Responses on Waxman-Markey by Jim ManziCAFE and Climate Change: Nada by Jim Manzi
Waxman-Markey Cost-Benefit Analysis by Jim Manzi
19
Emissions Offsets by Jim Manzi15
Carbon Tax Fantasies by Jim ManziI Believe Professor Krugman Is Wrong About Climate Change and China by Jim Manzi
11
Obesity, Time Spent Eating, and Storks Bringing Babies by Jim Manzi03
President Obama and the Rule of Law by Jim ManziApril
29
Against Waterboarding by Jim Manzi27
Why Is Torture Wrong? by Jim Manzi23
Re: Torture, Tactics, and Strategy, ctd. by Jim Manzi22
Torture, Tactics and Strategy by Jim Manzi18
Hong Kong: Prepare to Be Assimilated by Jim Manzi05
The Multiverse, Intelligent Design and Science: Much Ado about Nothing by Jim Manzi01
New Fusionism, ctd. by Jim ManziMarch
30
Management by FIAT by Jim Manzi23
Looking Ahead by Jim Manzi19
Konichiwa! by Jim Manzi18
Emotions and Money Don’t Mix by Jim Manzi17
The Way We Live Now II by Jim Manzi13
Makes Me Say ‘Oh My Lord!’ by Jim Manzi10
Fusionism Revisited by Jim Manzi09
Taxes and Entrepreneurship and Causality by Jim ManziNew Fusionism by Jim Manzi
February
20
Epistemological Modesty by Jim Manzi19
Homogeneous Economicus by Jim Manzi17
The IQ of Where to Be by Jim ManziHomogeneous Economicus by Jim Manzi
12
Families, Freedom and Responsibility by Jim ManziWhat Should We Do About The Stimulus? by Jim Manzi
10
Yes You Can by Jim ManziThe Costanza-Hoover Principle by Jim Manzi
09
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Jim Manzi06
Stimulus predictions: put up or shut up by Jim Manzi04
Limits on Executive Comp: Where I Think We’re Headed by Jim Manzi03
Popper is my homeboy: a manifesto by Jim Manzi01
Science and Religion in The New Republic by Jim ManziJanuary
28
Who would finance a camcorder in 2009? by Jim ManziThe Phantom Menace by Jim Manzi
27
The European Social Welfare State Bill by Jim Manzi23
Delayed Inaugural Reactions by Jim Manzi20
His Initials are KSM by Jim Manzi13
Who’s Fooling Who? by Jim Manzi11
Conservative Renewal: A View from the UK by Jim Manzi10
Unnatural Evolution by Jim Manzi06
More Clinical Trials Blogging: Experiments, Causality and Decisions by Jim Manzi05
Goose Sauce, Meet Gander Sauce by Jim Manzi02
Foxes and Henhouses by Jim Manzi2008
December
23
My Worst Blog Post of the Year by Jim Manzi18
Thinking About the Bank Bailout by Jim Manzi16
The Way We Live Now by Jim Manzi15
No Free Lunch, Part 1 million by Jim Manzi10
Simple Questions about the Auto Bailout by Jim Manzi09
Is There a Good Auto Bailout? by Jim Manzi04
GM’s Magical Thinking by Jim Manzi02
Red Friday by Jim Manzi01
Your Fist and My Nose by Jim ManziNovember
18
Factory Guy by Jim Manzi17
Two Questions about the Motor City Shakedown by Jim ManziDetroit: Same Old, Same Old by Jim Manzi
14
That 70s Show by Jim Manzi13
Bankruptcy for GM by Jim Manzi11
Conservative Coalition-Building by Jim Manzi07
More on Inequality by Jim ManziRe: Inequality by Jim Manzi
05
Overcome by Jim Manzi04
Overcome by Jim ManziOctober
30
Still on Strike Against Campaign Blogging: Why It’s Plausible that Epistatic Interactions Are Complex and Central by Jim ManziThe Campaign Is Too Depressing to Blog I: Dawkins by Jim Manzi
20
Chess, Not Checkers by Jim Manzi14
So Simple a Caveman Could Do It by Jim Manzi10
The Current Stock Market Decline… by Jim Manzi06
Winning by Jim Manzi03
Handicapping the Impact of the Bailout by Jim Manzi01
Are Paulson and Bernanke Fear-Mongering? by Jim ManziSeptember
30
Hot Air Again by Jim Manzi29
The Bail-Out Vote by Jim Manzi25
Are We living Through a Liberal Realignment? by Jim Manzi22
What to Do Now? by Jim Manzi19
Welcome to History by Jim Manzi18
Goldstein, Genes and the Fatal Conceit by Jim Manzi15
Big Enough to Fail by Jim ManziDo More Unequal Places Tend to Vote for Democrats? by Jim Manzi
10
McCain, Reagan and Greatness by Jim Manzi08
Wilma Jennings Bryan by Jim Manzi03
More on The Icarus Syndrome by Jim Manzi02
More on Experience and Presidential Performance by Jim Manzi01
The Icarus Syndrome by Jim ManziAugust
31
Experience and Presidential Performance by Jim Manzi14
Hot Air by Jim Manzi11
Brad DeLong Thinks Taxing An Activity Doesn't Discourage It: I'm Not Sure Why by Jim Manzi08
Old School by Jim Manzi07
Paris Hilton and Offshore Drilling by Jim ManziDrilling in ANWR by Jim Manzi
05
Wanna Buy a Watch? by Jim ManziJuly
31
High Taxes Kill Jobs by Jim Manzi24
One Lesson from MoveOn by Jim Manzi16
Oil: Are We In A Bubble? by Jim Manzi15
The Luxurious Growth by Jim ManziFreeman Dyson's Got My Back by Jim Manzi
11
Chance and Necessity by Jim Manzi08
The Wisdom of Craps by Jim Manzi07
Nice Try by Jim Manzi05
Shut Up and Eat Your Spinach by Jim ManziJune
30
A Tricameral Legislature? by Jim Manzi26
Re: We All Deserve to Die by Jim Manzi25
Urban Schools by Jim Manzi19
The Debate is Moving by Jim Manzi18
Why Conservatives Are Going to Win on Global Warming by Jim Manzi17
Scientific American and Climate Change II: Discounting by Jim ManziScientific American and Climate Change I: Distributional Ethics by Jim Manzi
15
Liveblogging Heathrow, in spite of no real need for speed by Jim Manzi14
A conservative, a liberal and a scientist walk into a bar by Jim Manzi06
In Defense of a Small Town by Jim Manzi03
Rent Control by Jim Manzi02
Bienvenue! by Jim ManziCorzine to Mayberry: Drop Dead by Jim Manzi
May
28
Obamerica by Jim Manzi23
Undetermined by Jim Manzi22
Some Observation about Middle-Class Taxes by Jim Manzi19
More Peak Oil by Jim ManziPeak Oil Hysteria by Jim Manzi
16
Conservatives and Gay Marriage by Jim Manzi12
Is Harvard Just a Tax-Free Hedge Fund? by Jim Manzi08
Zakaria II: Am I Crazy? by Jim Manzi07
A Post-American World? by Jim Manzi02
Show Me the Science by Jim ManziApril
30
Can The Optimum Carbon Tax Possibly Be Zero? by Jim Manzi22
Hotheads by Jim Manzi14
Don’t Disperse Me Bro by Jim Manzi13
Formalism Still Running Amok by Jim Manzi11
New Jersey and Yon, Perfect Together by Jim Manzi10
Storks Bring Babies by Jim Manzi09
Family Feud by Jim Manzi03
Huh? by Jim ManziLibertarian Paternalism by Jim Manzi
02
Hate the Game, Not the Player by Jim ManziMarch
31
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio by Jim Manzi26
Half-Truth by Jim Manzi20
The Martingale’s Song by Jim Manzi17
Picking Up Nickels in Front of a Steamroller by Jim Manzi14
More on Prostitution and the Law by Jim Manzi10
Completely Objective Journalism by Jim Manzi07
Involved by Jim Manzi06
Legacy of Anecdotes by Jim Manzi05
McCain’s Excellent Speech by Jim Manzi04
Conservatives and Libertarians by Jim Manzi01
Fingerprints by Jim ManziFebruary
26
Why Do You Think They Call It Data Mining? by Jim Manzi25
Democracy and Objectivity by Jim Manzi06
So What Are People Who Analogize Politicians to Technology? by Jim ManziLiberal Fascism by Jim Manzi
January
28
The Ecology Narrative by Jim Manzi22
Three Yards and a Cloud of Dust by Jim Manzi17
Calling George Orwell by Jim Manzi16
Mitt Romney and Industrial Policy by Jim ManziWill Ferrell: L’Etranger by Jim Manzi
Pinker: I Don’t Get It by Jim Manzi
11
Who Wants Some Votes In Michigan? by Jim Manzi10
God and Darwin by Jim Manzi08
Pride Goes Before The Fall by Jim Manzi07
Rational Energy Policy I by Jim Manzi05
Coalition Politics by Jim Manzi04
Weitzman: Formalism Run Amok by Jim Manzi03
The Wire: Life Doesn’t Imitate Art by Jim Manzi2007
December
31
Discounting Discounting by Jim Manzi18
Why Are CEOs So Underpaid? by Jim Manzi14
Emissions Equity by Jim Manzi11
My Newfound Sympathy for David Gergen by Jim Manzi05
Dawkins Wants It Both Ways by Jim ManziCoase Club by Jim Manzi