Friday, June 09, 2006
A Reason I Continue to Read Brad DeLong's blog
by Ken Houghtonthe anti-coffee Starbuck's.
Can it be coincident that "Arabian Wine" arrived just before the Age of Enlightenment?
Not only are his defenses of N. Gregory Mankiw occasionally accurate, but there are the posts on not-necessarily-economic subjects such as coffee, which lead to another data point that may support my theory that the recent productivity growth in the U.S. economy is sparked not so much by IT as by the proliferation of
Caffeine is known to increase arousal, attention, and information processing....These results show that caffeine can increase the extent to which people systematically process and are influenced by a persuasive communication.
Can it be coincident that "Arabian Wine" arrived just before the Age of Enlightenment?
