Jim Garven's Blog

Here’s a list of articles that I have been reading today (organized by topic):

Catastrophes

• Typhoon Morakot, from The Big Picture

Health Care

• A new paper on life expectancy, by Tyler Cowen
• Fishy statements about health care reform, by Keith Hennessey
• Prevention, Health Costs, and Value, by Donald Marron

Finance

• University of Chicago finance professor Eugene Fama on Market Efficiency in a Volatile Market

The Economy

• Are we pointed in the right direction yet?, by Keith Hennessey

Game Theory

• Pascal’s Wager inverted: all atheists go to heaven?, by Presh Talwalkar