Showing posts with label Tell Me Why Economics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tell Me Why Economics. Show all posts
Thursday, July 8, 2010

Unsolicited Advice to Amazon and Google book search team

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One way to gauge a quality of a non-fiction book is the number of questions in a book. I'm not able to search 'question marks' u...
Monday, August 25, 2008

Assorted Podcasts

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Shakespeare Studies with Stanley Wells What do Greta Garbo, Madonna and Napoleon have in common? Why Glamour, Darling! Lipsky, Lanman Discus...
Monday, August 18, 2008

The Price of Political Connections

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To illustrate our approach in action, let’s take a trip to Indonesia and turn the clock back to 1996. Former President Suharto, who by then...
Saturday, July 26, 2008

Freakonomics Blog and Parental Control

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The internet access I use have parental control. Guess the reason they give for blocking the NYT's Freakonomics Blog- weapons- websites ...
Friday, May 30, 2008

Long live the Choice Architects of the World

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As all women who have ever shared a toilet with a man can attest, men can be especially spacey when it comes to their, er, aim. In the priva...

Link of the Day

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Understanding Uncertainty

The Drukard's Walk

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A great talk from Authors@Google; The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives by Leonard Mlodinow Related; Numbers Guy Interview...
Monday, March 31, 2008

Teaching Economics -'Aim high in steering'

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The latest EconTalk with McCloskey is highly recommended- the last part of the discussion talks about the art of teaching economics. Discipl...
Friday, March 28, 2008

Marriage Counseling from Prostitutes

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Your Sex Industry Questions Answered ; What’s the best way to keep the john around for a long time? A: Dorothy says that “the best” sex work...
Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Hamermesh's Economic Thought for the Day

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March 6, 2008 —Lecturing on divorce today, I was reminded of the refrain in Clay Walker’s song “ Then What ”: “Then what, what you gonna do,...
Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Quote of the Day

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“ It ain’t the things you don’t know that hurt you, it’s the things you know that ain’t true .” -Robert Solow (cited in Popular Myths about ...

Debating Economics

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Will Wilkinson vs Stephen Marglin on The Dismal Science: How ­Thinking Like An Economist Undermines Community Watch it on Blogging Heads Re...
Monday, February 25, 2008

Econ Talk- a must listen

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Sowell on Economic Facts and Fallacies
Saturday, February 23, 2008

Sowell Interview

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Thomas Sowell on Economic Facts and Fallacies
Friday, February 8, 2008

Daily wisdom from Daniel Hamermesh

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From Economic Thought of the Day - Exodus 21:37 states, “If a mean steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it, he shall pay five oxen ...
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Thursday, January 24, 2008

Don Boudreaux- 'Watch out for trade deficits'

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Boudreaux article and talk on the stimulus plan and role of Fed Related; Creating Money (or Jobs) Out of Thin Air Boudreaux vs. Macro Econo...
Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Amazon recommendations I received today

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Choice and Consequence (Paperback) by Thomas C. Schelling The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever by Christopher Hitch...
Sunday, January 20, 2008

Hoisted from Comments- Logic of Micro and Macro

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Hoisted from comments to a Peter Boettke post - Mario Rizzo writes; Perhaps I am wrong but it seems to me that all of the popular books th...
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Saturday, January 19, 2008

Hoisted from comments- Saving Tim Harford!

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Gavin Kennedy writes; The problem with Tim Hardford’s account of the division of labour is this sentence: “Adam Smith never actually visite...
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Latest Freakonomics Column up

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Unintended Consequences By STEPHEN J. DUBNER and STEVEN D. LEVITT The Case of the Red-Cockaded Woodpecker Consider the Endangered Species Ac...