The Dangerous Economist

In my classes last week and this upcoming week, one of the topics is how government policy affects markets. We would like to see the benefit...

That is the title of an article you can read by clicking on Is Avatar Really King Of The Box Office? . There is a website called "Box O...

This came up in one of my classes this week when we discussed a chapter from the book The Economics Of Public Issues . Alex Tabarrok had a g...

This question was raised in a recent Wall Street Journal article called The Right Man Is Getting Harder to Find . It seems like there are ju...

In my macro courses we read a chapter in the book "The Economics of Macroissues." The chapter discussed how nations with common la...

Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman wrote the following in Slate magazine back in the 1990s: “Economic theory is not a collection of ...

This the question raised in Knives Drawn Over the 'Botax' . The article says: "Leading makers of antiwrinkle drugs, breast impl...

Read Admissions exemptions aide athletes By ALAN SCHER ZAGIER. I saw the article in the 12-31-09 San Antonio Express-News, page 2E. "T...

It is too early in the semester to have talked about recessions. But there was an interesting article called Recession may shape young adult...

This is a recently released movie which you can read about at IMDB The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus . In economics, we say that tastes an...

That is what world renown economist Daniel Hamermesh says. The article is A homemade Christmas . Here is the relevant passage, which says th...

There was an article in the New York Times recently about how schools tell prospective students how they are just like Hogwarts. It was Taki...

You probably know that there are real pirates, with many of them operating off the coast of Somalia. Their economic impact is particularly i...

In 1993, Yale economics professor Joel Waldfogel published an article titled The deadweight loss of Christmas . The idea is that gift recipi...

As I said in class and on the final test taking guide, the 2nd half of the final will be over the "study questions for final" But ...

You may have heard that women get paid less than men. How big the difference is not always clear. Read Women and the Pay Gap . Now there is ...

Go to Policy, portfolios and the investor lawmaker: As stock ownership rises in Congress, experts warn of potential ethics concerns from th...

I got this email a few days ago and it looks like it is from a famous economist. Anybody have any suggestions as to what I should do with $1...

These legislators make lots of speeches and ask questions at congressional hearings. That is part of their job and maybe they like doing tha...

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