The Dangerous Economist

Some economists think a decline in dynamism is contributing to low productivity growth By Jeffrey Sparshott of the WSJ . The monthly empl...

See Why Trump can’t be Reagan: Economic plan of reviving a 1980s style boom in America is pie in the sky Ruchir Sharma. "The potenti...

Economist traces almost half of the U.S. core-inflation slowdown this year to wireless services By Ben Leubsdorf of the WSJ . Excerpt: ...

A recent article says 4.7%. See Fed Likely to Go Ahead With Rate Hikes Despite Trump Turmoil by Rich Miller of Bloomberg. Excerpts: ...

See The 'Conspiracy' of Free Trade: The Anglo-American Struggle over Empire and Economic Globalisation, 1846-1896 . Here is the Amaz...

Here is the clue for Final Jeopardy on April 28: Category: HISTORIC WORKS' FIRST LINES Clue: "The annual labour of every nation...

On June 30, 2014 , the Trade Weighted U.S. Dollar Index: Major Currencies (DTWEXM) was 75.7 (the index starts in 1973 at 100, so the dollar ...

We covered international trade in my micro class recently and the text book has something about this in that chapter. To get a handle on t...

Factory work may have been a commitment device to get everyone to work hard. Odysseus tying himself to the mast was also a commitment devic...

Jeffery S. McMullen of Indiana University just published an article in the academic journal "Business Horizons." It is titled ...

I occasionally hear about people who say we need a better measure of our economic welfare than GDP. But economists are not blind to its sh...

One weakness of the unemployment rate is that if people drop out of the labor force they cannot be counted as an unemployed person and the ...

See The Most Profitable Industries in 2016 by Mary Ellen Biery of Forbes . A student asked about profit rates in class recently since this ...

See Forget the ring: Lab-grown diamonds are a scientist’s best friend by Sarah Kaplan of The Washington Post . It provides not just some of...

Click here to read the article . Excerpts: "San Antonio is considered the 23rd best place to live in the United States, according to...

The first one is Researchers at AAAS Annual Meeting Explore the Science of Kissing . The following quote gives you an idea of what it is al...

One weakness of the unemployment rate is that if people drop out of the labor force they cannot be counted as an unemployed person and the ...

This is mostly a post from November, 2013. But there was another article about something similar involving the Dalai Lama this week. So I ha...

Welcome to any new students. The entries usually have something to do with a basic economic principle that is related to a recent news stor...

See The Telltale Sign a New Hire Isn’t Fitting In​: Newcomers who stick around and thrive use language styles similar to those of co-workers...