For some strange reason, my usual Tuesday morning workload (ie. the homework due at 9:30 that I don’t begin until the morning of) only consumed about a half-hour of my time. With 2 1/2 hours to kill, I, unlike my bosses, am pleased that I have internet access.
- Oh Canada, our home and worthless pharmacy - Ok, so it’s not quite as catchy as the real Canadian national anthem, but it serves the point.
Lipitor, Pfizer’s anti-cholesterol agent, was No. 1 [in sales] in both countries. Imagine that America dispatched the 82nd Airborne Division to seize Canada’s Lipitor, leaving our neighbors to fight cholesterol with Chinese herbs and Canadian bacon (a splendid Easter-egg accompaniment). Canada’s 9.75 million Lipitor prescriptions would cover 13 percent of the 74.8 million orders filled here last year.
But I am wasting your time. We already knew that importing our drugs from Canada wasn’t worth our time.
- If you’re not reading Cafe Hayek regularly, I haven’t been raving about it enough. In response to the new paper, How trade saved humanity from biological exclusion: an economic theory of Neanderthal extinction:
Neanderthals failed to survive after humans entered their territories in large part because neanderthals were not innovative and had no significant division of labor and trading relationships.
So, we can with more accuracy than ever call protectionists and others who would keep market forces from improving the human lot “neanderthals.”
- If I decide to go the route of getting a PhD, I’m considering switching to economics. I’m not sure if it’s possible to just enter another field at that level, but I will be investigating. The engineering thing is fun. It’s not that it’s getting old, but my increasing depth of understanding of the subject is making the depth of my other favorite subjects seem quite insignificant. On the downside, I don’t think econ grad students get the nice wages that the engineers do.
