Saturday, April 5, 2025

High school and higher education (30 second video)

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 Someone recently sent me thi s old video snippe t (about 30 seconds) from an interview in Stockholm in 2012.  Whenever I'm asked about ...
Friday, April 4, 2025

The market for rare (and signed) books

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 Books inscribed by the author are stories in themselves. Here's a story published last year in The New Yorker about the rare book marke...
Thursday, April 3, 2025

A user's guide to Experimental Economics, by Muriel Niederle

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 Here's a magisterial handbook chapter, by Muriel Niederle Experiments: Why, How, and A Users Guide for Producers as well as Consumers ...
Wednesday, April 2, 2025

The Economist as Designer: Susan Athey's AEA presidential address

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 Susan Athey, throughout her career and in her presidential address to the AEA, has added to our vision of how economists can make our way i...
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Headlines that could have been dated April 1

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 This year there's one headline that stands out from all the others: The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans U.S. ...
Monday, March 31, 2025

Open letter on Science

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  Here's the NYT story out this morning, Trump Administration Has Begun a War on Science, Researchers. Say Nearly 2,000 scientists urged...

Mike Ostrovsky on congestion pricing (podcast)

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Congestion pricing: as it's happening: Congestion Pricing: Economics, Theory, Reality March 29, 2025 • 57 mins with @mostrovs @skom...
Sunday, March 30, 2025

Billionaires and their nannys

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 Billionnaires have been moving to Palm Beach and that has changed the local market for nannys. The New Yorker has the story: The Six-Figure...