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• Assassination equilibria

  Assassins appear to be deterrable [...]

  Posted: November 13, 2007, 3:29pm EST

• Self-manipulation for pain and profit

  Using incentives to make yourself thin, miserable [...]

  Posted: November 12, 2007, 10:20pm EST

• Satiation

  It's a guy thing [...]

  Posted: November 09, 2007, 5:29pm EST

• Fair and foul

  Baseball needs collusion, but not too much. [...]

  Posted: November 09, 2007, 9:15am EST

• Outsourcing wifery

  Liberation lies in the cash nexus [...]

  Posted: November 08, 2007, 9:21pm EST

• Free Radiohead

  Most consumers pay no more than necessary [...]

  Posted: November 08, 2007, 9:47am EST

• Pain at the pump, but for whom?

  Oil importers shouldn't covet their neighbors' wealth. [...]

  Posted: November 07, 2007, 3:46pm EST

• Gary Becker's dirty hands?

  GARY BECKER, the University of Chicago economist famous for, among other things, helping us see children as "durable consumer goods", is to be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States government's highest non-military honour. Mr Becker's Chicago colleague... [...]

  Posted: November 06, 2007, 9:04pm EST

• Power failures

  If dear energy reflects demand, we should be happy to pay. [...]

  Posted: November 06, 2007, 1:33pm EST

• So like us

  Monkeys hate admitting errors, too. [...]

  Posted: November 06, 2007, 11:15am EST

• Who says supermarkets are dumb?

  What's the logic behind parking validation? [...]

  Posted: November 05, 2007, 4:52pm EST

• Who says supermodels are dumb?

  Beauty, like the dollar, is a depreciating asset [...]

  Posted: November 05, 2007, 4:01pm EST

• Reminder: New York discussion on November 12th

  Come and have an argument with us [...]

  Posted: November 05, 2007, 1:03pm EST

• An ailing fatherland

  Will Venezuela sink despite its oil? [...]

  Posted: November 05, 2007, 12:41pm EST

• A game theory of school choice

  Managing the demand side of education [...]

  Posted: November 05, 2007, 11:41am EST

• Given a choice, people choose... football?

  Given a choice in schools, citizens will use it for the better. [...]

  Posted: November 03, 2007, 2:42pm EDT

• I die a little, but not soon enough

  It's a problem with my discount rate [...]

  Posted: November 02, 2007, 6:44pm EDT

• A surplus of daylight savings

  What's hours is yours [...]

  Posted: November 02, 2007, 6:39pm EDT

• What will the market provide?

  We should not project our preferences onto others. [...]

  Posted: November 02, 2007, 11:49am EDT

• Do the poor prefer bad schools?

  Poor parents are not like Ann Coulter readers [...]

  Posted: November 01, 2007, 6:03pm EDT

• School market magic

  Private schools fill needs, but which ones? [...]

  Posted: November 01, 2007, 1:53pm EDT

• The psychology of temporal poverty

  Rational reconciliation to death threatens the extension of life [...]

  Posted: October 31, 2007, 10:31pm EDT

• EU forgot supply

  Could cheap foreign carbon threaten trade? [...]

  Posted: October 31, 2007, 1:37pm EDT

• How education is not like health

  What does school choice have to do with health care? [...]

  Posted: October 31, 2007, 12:57pm EDT

• An invitation to New York readers

  Please come and argue with us [...]

  Posted: October 30, 2007, 11:19pm EDT

• More Buffalo blogging

  Border restrictions impede rust belt access to Canada [...]

  Posted: October 30, 2007, 5:38pm EDT

• A revolution of Hummers

  A Venezuelan subsidy threatens to undermine its oil wealth [...]

  Posted: October 30, 2007, 3:43pm EDT

• The not-even-slightly-peckish beast

  Tax cuts are a lousy way to cut spending [...]

  Posted: October 30, 2007, 1:50pm EDT

• The veepstakes

  Can an uninformed blogger out-guess the political experts? [...]

  Posted: October 29, 2007, 6:07pm EDT

• Shrinking Buffalo

  Sunbelt boomtowns paved the way for catastrophe [...]

  Posted: October 29, 2007, 10:38am EDT

• Woe, woe, Buffalo

  Creaking cities should try "shrinking to greatness" [...]

  Posted: October 26, 2007, 5:01pm EDT

• Disaster nationalism

  Was the Great Compression really so great? [...]

  Posted: October 26, 2007, 2:54pm EDT

• Tragedy of the common brain

  What would you pay for the whole of human knowledge? [...]

  Posted: October 26, 2007, 11:59am EDT

• Cui bozo

  Don't bother to follow the money [...]

  Posted: October 25, 2007, 10:29pm EDT

• The middle is moving on up

  The middle class is not getting the shaft [...]

  Posted: October 25, 2007, 4:11pm EDT

• Grade inflation

  An American "A" is a British "B" [...]

  Posted: October 25, 2007, 12:00pm EDT

• Corporate social irresponsibility

  Is Toyota undermining the democratic process? [...]

  Posted: October 25, 2007, 11:23am EDT

• How to sell books

  Bloggers never tire of writing about bloggers [...]

  Posted: October 24, 2007, 11:52am EDT

• BLOGNOTE | COMMENTS

  Our comment function is back on after a two-week downtime, using a new system (Pluck). But pending an eventual simplification of the routine here, you may hit a new check-box or two when you first return to comment, or if... [...]

  Posted: October 24, 2007, 11:17am EDT

• Do good by dodging taxes

  Take a deduction for development [...]

  Posted: October 24, 2007, 10:53am EDT

• Feeling peakish

  Do speculators see a bubble, or peak oil? [...]

  Posted: October 23, 2007, 2:36pm EDT

• More government failure: like kryptonite to supercapitalism!

  Money in politics is a problem with politics, not money. [...]

  Posted: October 22, 2007, 11:55pm EDT

• Deal or no deal

  Too bad we all aren't in the European Union [...]

  Posted: October 22, 2007, 5:07pm EDT

• What isn't the matter with Kansas

  Local opposition to coal needs national policy support [...]

  Posted: October 22, 2007, 11:01am EDT

• The happy facts

  Chances are, more money will make you happier [...]

  Posted: October 21, 2007, 1:33pm EDT

• Don't fear the sociological zoo

  Economics needs to get its hands dirty [...]

  Posted: October 19, 2007, 7:33pm EDT

• The new new-age thinking

  It really is the first day of the rest of your life [...]

  Posted: October 19, 2007, 6:09pm EDT

• Everything I need to know about economics I learned from beer

  As goes your pint, so goes industry [...]

  Posted: October 19, 2007, 12:58pm EDT

• Economics blog economics

  Our comparative advantage is in snark [...]

  Posted: October 17, 2007, 10:26pm EDT

• Empty Calories

  Don't make public costs out of private choices [...]

  Posted: October 17, 2007, 5:12pm EDT

• Black gold

  What goes up must come down, unless it's oil. [...]

  Posted: October 17, 2007, 3:04pm EDT

• Blueprint for baloney

  Tories should embrace growth, not pseudo-science [...]

  Posted: October 17, 2007, 1:36am EDT

• The cost of cheap water

  The American south-east should charge more, ration less [...]

  Posted: October 16, 2007, 12:13pm EDT

• The melting-pot discount

  Thrifty immigrants deliver consumer savings [...]

  Posted: October 15, 2007, 1:51pm EDT

• This week in comparative advantage

  The lovely logic of gains from trade [...]

  Posted: October 15, 2007, 12:48am EDT

• Oh no! Globalisation increases returns to human capital

  They say inequality is increasing like that's a bad thing. [...]

  Posted: October 14, 2007, 11:13pm EDT

• Explanations matter

  Understanding inequality is crucial if we're to fix it [...]

  Posted: October 12, 2007, 11:00am EDT

• Existential externalities

  To subsidise being or not to subsidise being, that is the question. [...]

  Posted: October 10, 2007, 11:09pm EDT

• Access denied

  For a developed Africa, better connections are needed [...]

  Posted: October 10, 2007, 3:30pm EDT

• Thank goodness for central bank independence

  GOP candidates' economic beliefs are not inspiring [...]

  Posted: October 10, 2007, 1:33pm EDT

• Faces for radio: spiteful economists on inequality

  MARTIN FELDSTEIN, soon to be the former president of the National Bureau of Economic Research, chats about the dollar, inflation and the housing market with host Tom Keene on this Bloomberg podcast [mp3]. It's all worthwhile. But economic analysis is... [...]

  Posted: October 09, 2007, 9:41pm EDT

• Privatisation revisited

  HILLARY CLINTON has just announced her plan to increase retirement savings, a government-sponsored private-pension plan. She even includes an incentive to contribute, up to a $1,000 match for those earning less than $60,000 and $500 for participants who earn more.... [...]

  Posted: October 09, 2007, 6:09pm EDT

• Banana republics

  It's time America's legislators got some company [...]

  Posted: October 09, 2007, 4:02pm EDT

• Goodbye Lusaka, Farewell to Alms

  The implications of a cultural Gregory Clark. [...]

  Posted: October 09, 2007, 12:02am EDT

• Triangle trade

  China is the world's store, and the world's bank [...]

  Posted: October 08, 2007, 4:32pm EDT

• Upskilling

  Entrepreneurial Afghanistan hits another dead end [...]

  Posted: October 08, 2007, 12:25pm EDT

• A problematic theory of everything

  Paradigm shifts require high standards of evidence [...]

  Posted: October 06, 2007, 7:19pm EDT

• Is a productivity lead an advantage?

  Our wealth does not depend on others' poverty [...]

  Posted: October 05, 2007, 3:55pm EDT

• Easterly to Asian Development Bank: Die!

  What's an obsolete development bank to do? [...]

  Posted: October 04, 2007, 9:59pm EDT

• Markets and social justice: two great tastes that taste great together

  Efficiency serves the left's ideals [...]

  Posted: October 04, 2007, 8:55pm EDT

• Trade under fire

  Americans vent their frustrations on foreigners [...]

  Posted: October 04, 2007, 3:48pm EDT

• Naomi Klein smackdown roundup

  A short compendium of choice anti-Kleinism [...]

  Posted: October 03, 2007, 11:28pm EDT

• A lumpy bubble

  In housing market declines, it's all about location [...]

  Posted: October 03, 2007, 2:11pm EDT

• The great equaliser, Alan Greenspan

  Does David Sirota want to reduce inequality or not? [...]

  Posted: October 02, 2007, 5:58pm EDT

• What makes an economist?

  Suffering, science, or sound intuition? [...]

  Posted: October 02, 2007, 3:42pm EDT

• How fair is it?

  Market constraints limit how "fair" trade can be [...]

  Posted: October 02, 2007, 1:17pm EDT

• Gifts that keep on giving

  Robert Reich's arbitrary tax deduction take-back [...]

  Posted: October 01, 2007, 5:37pm EDT

• Putting a price on Radiohead

  "It's up to you", says the band [...]

  Posted: October 01, 2007, 4:41pm EDT

• Handicapping Harlem

  Who pays the price of gentrification? [...]

  Posted: October 01, 2007, 2:18pm EDT

• Prepare for a food crunch

  Challenges abound, but warming threatens most [...]

  Posted: September 28, 2007, 4:34pm EDT

• Runway gridlock

  How much is an on-time flight worth? [...]

  Posted: September 27, 2007, 4:13pm EDT

• Zimbabwe's problem: cruelty to animals?

  Cruelty to people counts too, right? [...]

  Posted: September 27, 2007, 3:28pm EDT

• Give me a sugar buzz or give me detention!

  As goes Kelvin High, so goes the world [...]

  Posted: September 27, 2007, 2:49pm EDT

• State of the union

  Politicians should learn from the demands of the UAW [...]

  Posted: September 26, 2007, 4:14pm EDT

• The value of spillovers

  For knowledge workers, the ideas are in the air [...]

  Posted: September 26, 2007, 3:24pm EDT

• The happiness gender gap

  Women should learn guilt-free neglect [...]

  Posted: September 26, 2007, 2:12pm EDT

• The global back office

  Adjustment pain shouldn't let us halt outsourcing [...]

  Posted: September 25, 2007, 4:55pm EDT

• How far is far?

  You can't explain the suburbs without the highways [...]

  Posted: September 25, 2007, 12:46pm EDT

• Lennonist economics

  There's nothing scientific about nationalist economics [...]

  Posted: September 25, 2007, 11:35am EDT

• The cost of living extremely well

  Luxury is a bargain (for the rich) [...]

  Posted: September 24, 2007, 11:32pm EDT

• The density of nations

  American highways make cutting carbon painful [...]

  Posted: September 24, 2007, 3:47pm EDT

• We talk back: more on single-payer care

  When the data is suspect, we must be circumspect [...]

  Posted: September 23, 2007, 2:23pm EDT

• Canadian health-care does more with less

  For once, can Tyler Cowen be missing the point? [...]

  Posted: September 22, 2007, 5:37pm EDT

• A spoonful of monopoly helps the medicine go down

  Physicians have an unhealthy aversion to competition [...]

  Posted: September 21, 2007, 1:01am EDT

• Progressivity in the GOP

  There's an opportunity cost to tax cuts [...]

  Posted: September 20, 2007, 4:20pm EDT

• Black market books

  Sticky prices make Canadian parity pay [...]

  Posted: September 20, 2007, 2:32pm EDT

• Above the fold

  A daily round-up of economic news [...]

  Posted: September 20, 2007, 8:19am EDT

• Welcome Paul Krugman!

  Paul Krugman should focus on low mobility, not inequality [...]

  Posted: September 19, 2007, 10:59pm EDT

• American intensity

  Dear oil may end American exceptionalism [...]

  Posted: September 19, 2007, 11:20am EDT

• Unfree exchange: iClone edition

  You can lean a lot from fake iPhones [...]

  Posted: September 18, 2007, 11:49pm EDT