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Zeke

The five senses are: eat, look, do things, comb my head and hear.

About Me

I am who you think I am.

My Interests

"Give me women, wine, and snuff Untill I cry out 'hold, enough!'"-Keats, Nursery Rhymes, War Movies, bad things happening to others, math, abandoning my standards, research, picking fights, reading, staying up all night, acting like an asshole, philosophy, drinking to escape my problems, economics, finance, learning, the outdoors, wikipedia, natural resources, good bands, wasting oxygen, traveling the world, guitar, fiddle, learning how to spell, plotting, logic, smarting off to cops, anthropology, gardening, art deco, drinking before noon, existentialism, logical positivism, flowers, angst, freedom, acting fearless, art nouveau, art deco quantitative forecasting and analysis, game theory, good beer, pissing people off, exploiting visa and mastercard, Arcosanti, caring less and dying young.

Music:

Bluegrass, Blues, Rockabilly, Folk, Punk, Swing, Country Western Swing, Classical, Americana

Movies:


Television:

Television rots your brain.

Books:

1984, The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, Galapagos, The Mind and the Market, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Worldly Philosophers, The Republic, Relativity, A Brief History of Time, On Killing, The Game, When The Tripods Came, The Great Gatsby, The Wind in the Willows, Where the Wild Things are, Fahrenheit 451

Heroes:

What is the value of your hero to you in units of your religion?

My Blog

Working paper 2

"Does coming to class, doing your homework and sitting at the front help your grade?" By: Ezekiel A. Nichols                The goal of this ...
Posted by The Zeke on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 09:24:00 PST

Lindahl equilibrium of public good provisions in economies with two voting parties.

Working paper In Lindahl equilibrium individuals pay for the provision of a public good according to their marginal willingness to pay.  However, Lindahl equilibrium is not incentive compatable b...
Posted by The Zeke on Fri, 10 Nov 2006 04:58:00 PST

Student evaluations

Here are my student's comments with original spelling and grammar. Number of students answering the evaluation: 26 Average 4.23 out of 5 Comments: Label what is affecting the graphs. The class was ni...
Posted by The Zeke on Tue, 24 Oct 2006 06:24:00 PST

Apathy

It is a matter of fact; we live in a world of problems.  Problems we did not create.  Problems inherited entirely from you, our parents.  The word inherit implies a sense of ...
Posted by The Zeke on Mon, 14 Aug 2006 11:41:00 PST

What I should be doing/What I am doing

What I should be doing: Grading Papers Finishing my paper Studying Preparing lecture notes Paying Bills Figuring out where this rash came from   What I am doing: Searching ebay for taxidermy monk...
Posted by The Zeke on Thu, 10 Aug 2006 09:52:00 PST