Good Entropy

*Corruption: What Everyone Needs to Know* – Marginal REVOLUTION

That is by Ray Fisman and Miriam A. Golden, an excellent book, the subtitle says it all.  And yes it does also cover how to stop or at least limit corruption.

If reality is nothing but a ‘narrative,’ then of course it’s important to control what people say.

The ‘Postmodern’ Intellectual Roots of Today’s Campus Mobs – WSJ

We are witnessing the second great era of speech repression in academia, the first coming during the “culture wars” of the late 1980s and early ’90s. One force behind the new wave is a theory of truth, or a picture of reality, developed the first time around. This theory, which we might call “linguistic constructivism,” holds that we don’t merely describe or represent the world in language; language creates the world and ourselves. A favorite slogan of our moment, “Words have power,” reflects that view.