Life Advice from Cecilia Rouse
Cecilia Rouse was awarded the 2017 Bell Award from the American Economic Association’s Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Pro...
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Friday, December 29, 2017
Thursday, December 28, 2017
The Role of Academia in Tumultuous Times
The other day I found myself, as one does, reading speeches given 50 years ago by Edward Levi, who was then the president of the University ...
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Wednesday, December 27, 2017
"Comfort the Afflicted and Afflict the Comfortable"
"The job of a newspaper is to comfort the afflicted and to afflict the comfortable." I first heard that saying back in the mid-198...
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Tuesday, December 26, 2017
Charles Dickens on Management vs. Labor
There's a sort of parlor game that the economically-minded sometimes play around the Christmas holiday, related to A Christmas Carol , ...
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Monday, December 25, 2017
Charles Dickens on Seeing the Poor
Charles Dickens wrote what has become one of the iconic stories of Christmas day and Christmas spirit in A Christmas Carol. But of course,...
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Sunday, December 24, 2017
Enviromental Costs of Christmas Trees: Real vs. Artificial
My family always had real Christmas trees when I was growing up. I've always had real trees as an adult. Living in my own little bubble,...
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Saturday, December 23, 2017
India: Headed Toward Most Populous Country
Throughout my lifetime, China has been the most populous country in the world. But India has nearly caught up, and should overtake China in ...
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Friday, December 22, 2017
Interview with Anne Case: Mortality, Funerals, and More
Douglas Clement has published an "Interview with Anne Case," subtitled "Princeton economist on the cost of AIDS in South Afri...
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Thursday, December 21, 2017
US Dollar: Many Roles in the Global Economy
The US dollar is sometimes called the world's "reserve currency," which is true enough, but doesn't actually capture the m...
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Wednesday, December 20, 2017
Thoughts on Single Payer Health Care
The label of "single-payer" health care tends to hide the reality that many choices would still need to be made. For example, a ...
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Tuesday, December 19, 2017
Interview with Douglas Irwin: Lessons from History about US Trade
Aaron Steelman has an "Interview" with Douglas Irwin in the Econ Focus journal published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond...
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Monday, December 18, 2017
Migration from a Global Perspective
International migration is one of the hot-button subjects everywhere. The World Migration Report 2018 from the International Organization f...
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Friday, December 15, 2017
Occupational Licensing Under Fire
Let's be clear: an "occupational license" means that if you don't have the license, you don't have government permissi...
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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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