The Dangerous Economist

In my macro classes this week, we covered opportunity cost, the idea that there is no such thing as a free lunch. See Pollution highlights t...

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...

See A Motherboard Walks Into a Bar ... by ALEX STONE, from yesterday's NY Times. There is a program "called Standup (for System...

Dave Brubeck died on December 5. The music the Jazz Protagonists played last night was great, lots of Brubeck's best stuff. Here is a li...

Here is what Jerry Seinfeld said in last Sunday's New York Times Magazine about why he keeps practicing his stand up act: "When ...

It was in today's paper. Here is the link: Cut government spending to boost economy . Here is the article in case the link does not last...

Here is what President Obama said: “During National Entrepreneurship Month, we celebrate the hard work, ingenuity, and courage of our thin...

Here is the link Entrepreneurship Matters It is by Paul McManus. It is "An exploration of entrepreneurial thought and action for hi...

Paul Desmond played the alto saxophone with the Dave Brubeck Quartet. He said that he wanted to sound like a dry martini. On this CD, Jensen...

Click here to read The Wall Street Journal article . Excerpt: "Customers of all sorts of businesses in Greece will be able to walk aw...

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...