The Dangerous Economist

My students know how sad and disappointing this news is. See GDP report: Economic growth revised lower . Why is this disappointing? Let...

I play it in each class I teach. A former colleague taught it to me many years ago. As far as I know, I use the game invented by Edward Cham...

See the interesting post at Freakonomics . It mentions a paper by Michael Greenstone, John List, and Chad Syverson. Here is the abstract: ...

See Hard Unemployment Truths About 'Soft' Skills by NICK SCHULZ in the WSJ. Excerpts: "One of the [manufacturing] represent...

See Neil Armstrong Couldn't Afford Life Insurance, So He Used a Creative Way to Provide for His Family If He Died . Excerpts: "Ba...

It still doesn't seem like it. See Lehman Brothers, We Heard You Were Dead by ADAM DAVIDSON in Sunday's New York Times . He has a g...

See UIW looking to score more than points with football from The San Antonio Express-News . "To understand why the University of th...

Update 9-19: The Washington Post reports US seafood catch reaches 17-year high, all regions show increases in catch numbers . It looks l...

See Opting Out of the 'Rug Rat Race': For success in the long run, brain power helps, but what our kids really need to learn is grit...

That is in Longview, Wash. See Liquor Buyers Cross State Line: Prices Went Up—Not Down—After Washington State Ended Control of Booze Sales ,...

Money. See Thrash-for-cash not such a bad thing for a financially strapped Savannah State . Yes, there is a Savannah State University and it...

Thalidomide was sold to pregnant women in the 1950s and early 1960s to cure morning sickness. It was made by the German company Grunenthal. ...

Welcome to any new students. I usually post something three times a week on Wed., Fri. and Sun. The next post should be next Wed. The entrie...

It has Sylvester the cat but the real star is a little mouse who is an econmics professor. It is called "By Word Of Mouse." It wa...

It is called The Moral Molecule: The Source of Love and Prosperity . Zak coined the term neuroeconomics but this book seems to be about so m...

(Published in The New Leaders: The Business Bulletin for Transformative Leadership, November/December 1992.) Entrepreneurs are ...

See Brazilian Forestry Legislation Advances By JOHN LYONS of The Wall Street Journal . It is about a law that Brazil just passed. Excerpts:...

The Freakonomicis guys , STEPHEN J. DUBNER and STEVEN D. LEVITT wrote an article in 2006 in the NY Times magazine called A Star Is Made . ...

See Fatal car wrecks jump on tax day by Aaron Smith of CNN. Excerpts: "The odds of getting into a fatal crash increase by 6% on tax ...

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