How reliable does a test need to be in order to be used for screening?
A pro-screening friend posed this question — in response to my strong objections to mass screening. To which I replied:
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Amar Bhidé
Author of Uncertainty and Enterprise: Venturing Beyond the Known
Public Policy
What the seasonal flu teaches us about dealing with the coronavirus scare
Comparisons of coronavirus infections to the mundane seasonal ‘flu have invited widespread mockery. In fact, the comparison is oddly and
Read MoreMaking Economics More Useful. Final typeset version posted.
The compositor has sent the “final” version of Making Economics More Useful: How Technological Eclecticism Could Help (though the official
Read MoreEnding Repo Madness (Wall Street Journal oped)
A Swedish friend, employed in New York by a famously prudent Swedish bank, kindly invited me to lunch last month.
Read MoreQuestions about the practical utility of Randomized Control Trials
I got a “revise and resubmit” for my paper on making economics more useful on the very day the Nobel
Read MoreJust completed case-history of Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (CABG)
Srikant Datar, Fabio Villa, and I are happy (and relieved) to complete this case history on the evolution of coronary
Read MoreA Pragmatic Libertarian’s Angst about Immigration (Project Syndicate oped)
I am a staunch free-trader with strong but pragmatic libertarian leanings. I am also an immigrant (of “color” in the
Read MoreIn Praise of Market Volatility (WSJ Oped)
Talking heads on “financial” TV channels have always provided “infotainment” — information so blended with entertainment that you couldn’t tell
Read MoreThe Zero Percent solution (WSJ Oped + Tribute to Volcker)
Paul Volcker’s critique of 2% inflation targets in his recent memoir spurred me to write this oped just published in
Read MoreSkepticism as Antidote to Fake News (Wall Street Journal op-ed)
The WSJ op-ed reflects my ingrained First Amendment-absolutism: fake news will always be with us and any remedy is likely
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