The Dangerous Economist

Last year I had a link about the Gini coefficients for wealth. Go to What has happened to the distribution of wealth in recent years? To ...

I have been covering poverty and the distribution of income in micro this week. Here are some interesting links from the blog of economist M...

I used data from the Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis. The graph below shows GDP per capita in 2005 dollars since 1929....

Tomorrow is "Small Business Saturday." Here is what an article from the San Antonio Express-News says about it: "American ...

It was written by C. Northcote Parkinson. Click here to go to the Amazon listing . Here is there description: "Parkinson's Law s...

See JD Power study: Electric vehicle economics don't pencil out . Excerpt: "“EV owners report an average monthly increase in thei...

Ben Bernanke seems to think so. See Bernanke: Banks' tight standards hurting economy . "Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke say...

This is a continuation of Sunday's topic. Suppose that you buy a new shirt every month for $20. But now there is a high tax on shirts ...

I recall a commercial like this back in 1985 or 1986. It paints a bleak picture of America in the future, presumably caused on the growing n...

It is Sarah Lawrence College. That includes tuition, fees, room, and board. See Sticker Prices Go Up at Public 4-Year Colleges, but at a Slo...

Not according to Harvard economist Claudia Goldin. See The Truth About the Pay Gap: Feminist politics and bad economics by Steve Chapman. H...

On this day, economists mourn all the social welfare that has been lost in the last year. That social welfare is lost and we will never get ...

Here is the the Amazon link: Free Trade Under Fire: Third Edition I think it does a good job of debunking and refuting many of the mis-c...

See Regulator says pipeline fight raises issues for lawmakers . Excerpt: "[Barry] Smitherman, whose agency regulates the oil and gas ...

See Better bring a lot when parking at World Series . Excerpt: "The San Francisco Giants have been among the industry leaders in ...

Noé Hernández Cortez is a professor at Universidad del Valle de México, Campus Coyoacá. Here is the link to his blog: Noehernandezcortez...

No, kidding, really. See The argument for vote buying by James Stacey Taylor, an associate professor of philosophy at the College of New Je...

See Regardless of the Cost, College Still Matters by Michael Greenstone and Adam Looney of the Brookings Institution. Excerpts: "In ...

" It's the economy, stupid "-James Carville, strategist for Bill Clinton in the 1992 presidential campaign " The human ...