Showing posts with label Economic Theory. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Economic Theory. Show all posts
Thursday, August 7, 2008

Equivalent of Bees to Ecosystem are Taxi Drivers to...?

›
Taxi drivers have become more fractious as fines for bad driving or declining to pick up passengers have eaten into pay packets that have a...
Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Blog of the Day

›
Habermasian Reflections
Sunday, July 13, 2008

Quote of the Day

›
“ How the discipline of economics fares in revealing previously unrecognized social relations depends on the competition of disciplines in t...
Saturday, April 5, 2008

Random Economist- M. Ali Khan

›
M. Ali Khan from John Hopkins; I continue to pursue interests in economic interaction, as formalized in general equilibrium theory: models...
Monday, March 31, 2008

The Cult of Statistical Significance

›
Skimming over the recent book by McCloskey's latest book, The Cult of Statistical Significance: How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Ju...
1 comment:
Friday, March 28, 2008

GMU and Chicago- the believers, the rest atheists

›
David Friedman has an interesting comment about the role and belief of economists; I think it's still an important difference among eco...
1 comment:

The Downside of Freakonomics

›
Glenn Loury and Heather MacDonald at Blogging Heads Related; Toward a Unified Theory of Black America The Burden of Bad Ideas: How Modern I...
Sunday, March 23, 2008

Could it turn out like those times?

›
Depression, You Say? Check Those Safety Nets ; “I used to give a lecture explaining that the Great Depression could never happen now because...
Tuesday, March 18, 2008

World Bank on Cocaine

›
Researchers at World Bank are doing some serious research? Evo, Pablo, Tony, Diego, and Sonny - general equilibrium analysis of the illegal ...
Monday, March 17, 2008

Most economic theory is like mathematical masturbation?

›
Chris Blattman on What to read in development? Does most economic theory serve status alone? Too much does feel like mathematical masturbati...
Saturday, March 15, 2008

Desperate Central Bankers

›
Monetary Policy Alternatives at the Zero Bound: An Empirical Assessment Ben S. Bernanke, Vincent R. Reinhart, and Brian P. Sack Abstract: Th...
Wednesday, March 12, 2008

A Primer on International Trade

›
A course on International Trade from WTO Related; A perspective on the multilateral trading system's six decades: Julio Lacarte Muró
Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Challenges in Macro-Finance Modeling

›
Challenges in Macro-Finance Modeling Abstract: This paper discusses various challenges in the specification and implementation of 'macro...
Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Debating Economics

›
Will Wilkinson vs Stephen Marglin on The Dismal Science: How ­Thinking Like An Economist Undermines Community Watch it on Blogging Heads Re...
Sunday, March 2, 2008

The End of Great Moderation- Econ Talk of the Week

›
Alex Leijonhufvud on great moderation, inflation targeting, cybernetics and economic theory. Related; Axel Leijonhufvud and a Bit of Autobi...
Wednesday, December 12, 2007

How much praise is enough?

›
An interesting exchange between Buchanan and Shackle (via The Filter ); Dear Professor Buchanan, I have just this morning received and read...
Sunday, December 9, 2007

What's the litmus test for an economic theory?

›
Very interesting comment by Mankiw reacting to Peter Diamond 's criticism of his paper on 'height tax'; The Times also quotes a ...
Monday, November 26, 2007

Economic Theory for an Innovative World

›
We must replace neoclassical theory, including Schumpeter's model, with models applicable to the modern world where many entrepreneurs c...
1 comment: