The Dangerous Economist

They are Noble Peace Prize winning economist Muhammad Yunus and the late congressman Jack Kemp. You can read about this at President Obama N...

And I mean that as a compliment. A book about how children think was reviewed in the NY Times today and it reminded me of something Krugman ...

My students asked me to post pictures of my trip. But I have not gotten around to posting some of the pictures my wife took. Her nephew did ...

Below is an article I wrote that was published in the Encyclopedia of Financial Gerontology , (Lois A. Vitt and Jurg K. Siegenthaler, Editor...

Even Bill Gates says so. Read about that at Bill Gates quits Facebook over 'too many friends' . Here are the key exerpts: "Micr...

You can read about it at World's Most Expensive Fast Food . Here is the opening paragraph: "Dublin is home to Trinity College, the ...

In my ECON 2302 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...

This was an article in Parade magazine today. You can read it at Does It Pay to Host the Olympics? . It can cost a city $50 million just to ...

To read about this go to Can Your Student Loan Get a Bailout? . The article says "About two-thirds of the 3 million or so college senio...

Click on Dim economy drives women to donate eggs for profit to see how much money women can get for an egg.

To read this scintillating entry, go to Can You Find Virtue by Investing in Vice?

In my face-to-face class we read a chapter about obesity in the book The Economics of Public Issues . But the article titled A Few Extra Pou...

This may be more of a macro issue, but the Wall Street Journal reported that "personal saving as a percentage of after-tax income rose ...

Okay, he did not win the Masters or the U. S. Open this year. But what is the ultimate yardstick for measuring golfers? It is money won. Woo...

You probably know that our economy is going through a recession. Some of my students might recall that one definition of a recession is 2 st...

And it's because of simple economics. Family planning policies which limited couples to one child along with a preference for boys has l...

You can read about it at Going 'Paperless' to Thwart Scalpers . Here is how it works: "The technology, which Ticketmaster teste...

The article is Oil Is Plentiful, Demand Weak. Why Are Gas Prices Going Up? by VIVIENNE WALT. Here is the opening paragraph which illustrate...

It was in a review of David S. Brown's book Beyond the Frontier . (April 29). Here is the link: A Heartland View of History . Here is t...

Click on the following video link to find out: Who Was Alex P. Keaton's Favorite Economist? You will only have to watch a few minutes to...