Faceless Bureaucrat

Blogging on bureaucracy, organizations, USDA, agriculture programs, American history, the food movement, and other interests. Often contrarian, usually optimistic, sometimes didactic, occasionally funny, rarely wrong, always a nitpicker.

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Friday, March 17, 2023

Why Grist Mills?

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Roots of Progress is an interesting effort I follow. This particular post roused my usual contrarian reaction, but also triggered a qu...

Thursday, February 24, 2022

Trump, the Last Gasp of the Patriarchy?

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There was a sudden burst of women running and winning as Republicans in 2020. Some of them were and are supporters of the former president,...

Tuesday, November 23, 2021

Sounds Like Advantage to Females?

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Steve Kelman reports on research in Federal Computer Week--"soft skills" help team performance. To me it reads as if teams will ...

Saturday, May 22, 2021

Hidden Factors in Economic History

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I'm intrigued by the idea that some hidden factors account for economic gains: The invention of eyeglasses. That must have significantl...

Sunday, November 01, 2020

Women Advance? Some Evidence

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It's interesting to follow the posts on the FSA Facebook Group for a number of reasons. Sometimes posters in the group ask for help on v...

Saturday, March 30, 2019

Women, Cows, and Hens

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Just skimmed this summary of research on economic history. A couple paragraphs: Given the obviously crucial role of endogeneity issues i...

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