The Dangerous Economist

Just in case you con't know, that is actor Tony Shalhoub, who plays the obsessive-compulsive detective "Adrian Monk" on the US...

I don't know since I don't have any kids. But this article, How much does it really cost to have a baby? has some numbers. Here is ...

This was actually a post from about a year ago. But it follows up on the last post about genes affecting investment decisions. The extra cre...

That was the title of a WSJ article that you can read by clicking here . Here are some key exerpts: "Consider the FAAH gene. Roughly 25...

There is an interesting article called Layoffs not an option for some businesses . You might think that all a company has to do is layoff wo...

To see the answer click here . And yes, economics is involved! In case you don't know, before 1947, all major league baseball players we...

A student emailed me the correct answer tonight. It was Michelle Garza of the internet microeconomics course. Congratulations! She did a goo...

April first 2009 will go down in history. Click White Sox Sign Obama For Left-handed Bullpen Support to read all about it.

The article is Students fear recession will affect education . My second favorite economist is the guy who says: "If you save $4,000 a ...

There is an episode called "Margaritaville" which you can watch if you go to http://www.southparkstudios.com/ It is about the curr...

Try googling: "learn more from failure than success" and you get over 1,000 hits. But the New York Times Sunday business section h...

The first article is March Madness It Is, Economically by ANDREW ZIMBALIST. Does all the money from the NCAA basketball tournament help the...

Economist Mark Thoma gives a good overview of all the factors that came together to create the financial crisis with Who's the Villain i...

In honor of St. Patrick's Day, the Heroes of Capitalism blog has an entry on Arthur Guinness , founder of the Guinnes brewing company. ...

To read all about it, go to Prison contraband was booming trade , an article in today's Express-News. Guards smuggle in items for the pr...

To find out what 11 experts said last week in the NY Times go to When Will the Recession Be Over? . The experts include economics professors...

In my ECON 1301 class this week we read chapter 8 of the book The Economics of Public Issues . It seeems like a good idea to buy a slave and...

I gave a talk in 2007 at Pepperdine University called "Who Says Entrepreneurs Are Heroes?" You can watch it if you click here . It...

To see the list of the most profitable industries in the last 12 months, go to Sageworks . Here is the list. Notice that some of them are me...

That is the title of the article. Go to Dim economy drives women to donate eggs for profit . Increases in "donations" may not be t...