Economics
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When Life Is Commodified (Parashat Vayiggash 5779)
This is my D’var Torah for Parashat Vayiggash in 5779, December 15, 2018 — during thick of the season of gift giving and shopping. In 1912, Francis Collins published The Boys’ Book of Model Airplanes: How to Build and How to Fly Them. It was about a decade after Kitty Hawk, the first successful flight… Continue reading
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College Update: Stats and Economics
Not so much to say about the statistics course that is earth-shattering. I continue to be grateful to have encountered various warnings about how not to present data in misleading ways. Pie charts and badly depicted axes can make small effects look big (which happens every day in the paper when the stock index changes… Continue reading
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During the Flood, Inside the Ark — Learning From Bonhoeffer and the Freiburg School
This was my D’var Torah about Parashat Noach in 5783 (2022). This Torah reading centers on the Flood. This teaching here is about “during the Flood”, and at the end I discourage us from seeing our era as sliding toward the Flood. If we do see it that way, we still might ask the question… Continue reading
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College: Beginning Economics
I thought I had lost my Ec 10 notebook (introduction to economics) but I found it! I would never in a million years have taken the course, but it was one of the only standard required courses in my Social Studies concentration. I checked the current department requirements, and it remains that way, even though… Continue reading
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