The Dangerous Economist

The College Board released a report that suggests that strengthening community colleges is a key to maintaining economic growth in the futur...

In one of my macro sections we read a chapter in The Economics of Macroissues on immigration. Of course, it is a big issue in this election...

That is the title of an Associated Press article that you can read here . This relates to the first chapter of the book The Economics of Mac...

That is the title of David Hendrick's business page column in the San Antonio Express-News the other day. You can read it here . Here i...

The San Antonio-Express News had an article titled In a test, Time Warner Net hogs will pay for bytes . The basic idea is that people downlo...

That is the name of an article that you can read here . Texas cities and Salt Lake City are high on the list. But it is never clear what any...

Every occupation has its drawbacks. You probably think that they need to worry about shooting it out with rival gangs in turf wars. But the...

That is the title of a Time Magazine article which you can read here . The male monkeys pay for sex by grooming the female monkeys. The art...

Economist Mark Thoma wrote about something called a "helicopter drop" on his blog last Sept. It was called "The Repo Man...

Since this is finals week and the semester is just about over, I won't be blogging until around Jan 10.

Last week in the San Antonio Express-News, Michael E. Kraft, professor of environmental sciences at the Unviersity of Wisconsin-Green Bay, s...

This is a big issue here. There was an op-ed article on this in the San Antonio Express-News yesterday by John Merrifield, economics profess...

You probably hear alot of bad economic news: the dollar is down, the housing crisis, high oil prices, etc. But there was some good economic ...

It seems that tattoos are now being used for advertising. That means they are furthering the aims of the capitalist, for profit making syste...

Ever wonder how much people paid in income taxes in the past? Some of my students have asked about this. Our current federal income tax bega...

The misery index is simply the inflation rate plus the unemployment rate. The graph below shows how it has changed since 1970. Notice it use...

Student are supposed to get vaccinated against certain diseases. But what if the parents don't take care of it? Make it costly for them ...

He has been charged with four counts of perjury and one of obstruction of justice following a four-year investigation into steroids. But wha...

I talk about the Clean Air Act of 1990 in class and how, like any other regulation, it decreases supply. Any regulation raises costs to prod...

The book is Shopping for God: How Christianity Went From in Your Heart to in Your Face by James Twitchell. You can read reviews of it here ...