The Dangerous Economist

The American Association of University Women issued a report. One of the things it says is: "Ten years after graduation, women fall fu...

The show mentioned this along with the scholar Anatol Rapoport who used the "tit for tat" strategy to win a prisoner's dilemma...

This is the title of an essay by the famous philosopher Robert Nozick. You can read it here . I had a blog entry on how college professors a...

A report from the Census Bureau shows that even more so than in 1992, our material needs are being met. You can read about it here in an ...

In my macro class, we read a book called "The Economics of Macroissues." In the first chapter they show how countries with common ...

There was an interesting article in the Sunday New York Times Magazine. You can read it here . The article raises the question of why do so...

The housing market is always in the news. Prices soar. Then prices fall because there is a glut on the market. But within a couple of blocks...

Nicholas Barberis of the University of Chicago Business School has an interesting article called Search for the Holy Grail: Demystifying the...

There is a new book out called Out of the Pits: Traders and Technology From Chicago to London . It is by Caitlin Zaloom, an assistant profe...

Three recent articles illustrate this: Writing in the San Antonio Express-News, Jeanie Wyatt writes about Ireland. It is one of the fastest...

The Acton Institute for the Study of Religion & Liberty has produced a documentary titled The Call of the Entrepreneur . If you go to t...

His name is Gerald Busald and over the years he has found inaccuracies in the odds that the lottery states as well as other misleading aspec...

Okay, it is not the book Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (this is a link to the entire book online). I will come back to this boo...

Friday's Wall Street Journal had an article titled "Conspicuous Virtue and the Sustainable Sofa." You have to be a subscriber...

We all like economic growth, ceteris paribus. It means more for everyone. In chapter 1 of the book The Economics of Macroissues , they discu...

There was an article on "neurolaw" in the March 11 Sunday New York Times magazine. Nerolaw studies brain patterns to learn more ab...

In a recent post (called "Is It Rational To Be A Little Crazy?"-see below), I discussed how seeming irrational behavior might make...

I will post something new on Sunday. We are on spring break here at San Antonio College. Last week in my macro class we watched a video abou...

A woman in India wants to start a chain of coffee shops called Starstruck's. Starbucks is trying to stop it. This is similar to an issue...

On the first day of the semester, I tell the students that we assume people are rational in economics. That means that no one intentionally ...