links for 2008-05-11

Adam Tinworth

11 May 2008

[Virtual Economics: The balance chimera](http://virtualeconomics.typepad.com/virtualeconomics/2008/05/the-balance-chi.html)
A nice dissection of the idea that balance is just “giving both sides of the story”. You also need a sense of the relative weight of those sides.
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