The Dangerous Economist

No, really, there is. My students will find this hard to believe after the groaners I tell in class. But Yoram Bauman, who has a Ph. D. in e...

This week in one of my classes we read a chapter titled ""Bye, Bye Bison" from the book The Economics of Public Issues . The ...

First, a note to my students. I added some links and informaton to the last post on religion and economics. This may not be as simple a ques...

The ancient Greeks sure thought you could. They had a god of commerce and a god of wealth. You can read about them at Britannica. Hermes (co...

In my macro classes this week, I talked about unemployment. Our policy goal is full-employment which means we want to have the lowest rate o...

We all know that the unemployment rate is high at 9.7%. The recession has been tough. But until the last couple of years, the long-term pict...

What can an economist say about love on this holiday? You'd be surprised. But first, here is a link to an interesting story in yesterday...

There was an article in the San Antonio Express-News last week called Recession enough to drive a liquor salesman to drink . Apparently peo...

In per capita GDP, that is. In my macro classes this week we started talking about GDP (gross domestic product or the value of all the goods...

That might sound sacrilegious, especially with Valentine's day coming up. But "Online dating is a $976 million annual industry in t...

It seems that previous estimates were wrong. That is the gist of a WSJ article titled What's a Degree Really Worth? An often cited figu...

The article is Report: Study shows cell phone bans don’t lower accident rates . A study found that states that banned using hand-held cell p...

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...