Parsing Trump's Deregulation Plans
Many people have visceral but opposite reactions to the word "regulation." Some have an immediately positive reaction to almost an...
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Tuesday, October 31, 2017
Monday, October 30, 2017
Some Watery Economics
The quantity of fresh water on planet Earth doesn't change much over time, but the demands on that water and how it is distributed can c...
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Saturday, October 28, 2017
Almost 10 Billion Hours of Government-Imposed Paperwork
"Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is required to report to Congress on the pa...
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Thursday, October 26, 2017
Mysteries of Modern Inflation
The theory of inflation that I learned long ago suggested that inflation should creep up when an economy is running near full employment, bu...
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Wednesday, October 25, 2017
The Immediate Global Costs of Pollution
It often feels to me that a disproportionate share of the discussion talk about environmental issues involves arguments over the risks of cl...
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Monday, October 23, 2017
After Incarceration: How Many and Male Labor Force Participation
Getting data on the number of people in prison or more broadly under the supervision of the criminal justice system at a point in time is ea...
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Friday, October 20, 2017
Cicero: On Grazing, Money-Lending, and Murder
Here's a slightly obscure passage that made me cackle. Among the ancient Greek philosophers, the virtues were considered to be philosoph...
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Thursday, October 19, 2017
Teacher Absenteeism in the U.S.
It is of course arbitrary to draw a line about what level of absence of a K-12 teacher should be considered "chronic," but a commo...
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Wednesday, October 18, 2017
Housing Markets: A European Perspective
Americans are all-too-familiar with issues in the US housing market: fluctuations in housing prices, along with problems of affordability an...
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Tuesday, October 17, 2017
Online Dating and Interracial Marriage
Online dating has already altered romance, and it may be on its way to altering society more broadly by changing the way that people from di...
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Monday, October 16, 2017
Learning, Not Just Schooling: World Development Report 2018
The World Development Report 2018 , one of the flagship reports of the World Bank, focuses on the theme "LEARNING To Realize Education...
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Friday, October 13, 2017
Independent Workers and Policy: Krueger's Moynihan Lecture
Alan B. Krueger delivered the annual Daniel Patrick Moynihan Lecture on Social Science and Public Policy, on the topic of "Independent ...
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Here's a slightly obscure passage that made me cackle. Among the ancient Greek philosophers, the virtues were considered to be philosoph...
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The interaction of a bubble in real estate prices with the banking and financial sector drove the US economy into the Great Recession. For a... -
On November 2, 1983, President Ronald Reagan signed a law establishing a federal holiday for the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr., to be c...
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