The Dangerous Economist

We all know about rising health care costs. The health care industry is now about 17% of GDP. How behavior changes can help are in this arti...

Here are exerpts from an article: "...factories get squeezed by rising prices for energy, materials and labor" and "stricter ...

What is more important, having trees or using renewable energy like solar power? It seems that if your trees block the sun from getting thro...

The time chart below shows the U.S. unemployment rates since 1970. We are at 4.9% right now. That is low, but not as low as the 4% we had in...

Here is brief idea of what is going on: "a deprived childhood may affect the physical development of the brain and render its owner les...

I wanted my students to have some idea of how the economic stimulus plan might work and effect them. President Bush has signed the bill. So ...

Abstract: "Romantic love is characterized by a preoccupation with a deliberately restricted set of perceived characteristics in the l...

It might seem surprising to see an economist write an article with this title, but it was in the New York Times a few days ago by Robert Fra...

That is the title of a very interesting New York Times article which you can read here . It is by two economists who work at the Federal Res...

That is the title of an article you can read here . In one of my classes this week, we read about ethanol in the book The Economics of Publi...

That is the title of an article you can read here . Doing this will encourage people to bring fewer suitcases or pack their suitcases more e...

I got an email from Amazon.com the other day offering to sell me a book for abut $14. It is a baseball book by Bill James, the well known st...

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...