The Dangerous Economist

As a card carrying dismal scientist, I should not display optimism. But Google business news had 4 positive stories listed. Here they are: S...

See Piecing Together the Job-Picture Puzzle by Jon Hilsenrath of The Wall Street Journal . Excerpts: "Back in 1962, Yale University ec...

Maybe it is unfair, but it seems so. See The Beauty Premium by Christopher Shea of The Wall Street Journal . It describes a study done in ...

Not much I can add to this story. Click here to read it . "LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivian authorities say at least 30 people have been...

See Man's childhood comic collection fetches $3.5M by Jamie Stengle of the Associated Press. Excerpts: "A copy of Detective Comics...

That is the subtitle of a book recently reviewed in The Wall Street Journal . See Defying the Doomsayers: "Abundance" argues that ...

See New Studies Determine Which Social Class More Likely to Behave Unethically from the National Science Foundation. Excerpts are below but...

See Riot erupts at Florida Mall during Nike All Star collection sneaker release event . Excerpt: "A riot erupted late Thursday night at...

Click here to read this CNBC article by Julia Boorstin. Excerpt: "Oscar winners bring in 7.6 percent higher box office return on avera...

Click here to read this New York Times article by Michael Cooper . The crop is marijuana. Excerpt: "As the stubborn economic downturn h...

Do incentives always work? If so, what kind of incentives? There is a new book out that discusses these issues called Strings Attached: Unta...

I thought of this when I read a book review in The Wall Street Journal last Saturday. See Never Too Late to Learn . The book reviewed was ...

See Easy To Pronounce Names Help Win Friends And Influence People by Catharine Paddock, PhD, in Medical News Today . Excerpts: "...hav...

Below is a repeat of last year's Valentine's day post. I am not sure if the links are still working: The first one is Kisses unleash...

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. See Zuckerberg: The World's Richest Primatologist: People want to know about this town and that other ...

See The Wall Street Gene by JONAH LEHRER of the WSJ. In my classes I talk about how in economics the key question is often getting the righ...

See With Tax Break, Corporate Rate Is Lowest in Decades By DAMIAN PALETTA of the WSJ. Excerpts: "Total corporate federal taxes paid fe...

This past week in my micro class we read a chapter about obesity in the book The Economics of Public Issues . It is good news that the rate ...

See What's Wrong With the Teenage Mind? by ALISON GOPNIK, professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. From last ...

See Obama Details Plan to Curb Tuition By LAURA MECKLER and STEPHANIE BANCHERO of The Wall Street Journal . Part of the problem is ".....