As a result of the statistical "growth" in the GDP, the St. Louis Fed can now mark a little white space on its graphs, but it looks a bit silly here:
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As a result of the statistical "growth" in the GDP, the St. Louis Fed can now mark a little white space on its graphs, but it looks a bit silly here:
[...]Caroline Hoxby reports:
This paper shows that although the top ten percent of colleges are substantially more selective now than they were 5 decades ago, most colleges are not more selective. Moreover, at least 50 percent of colleges are substantially less selective now than they were then. This paper demonstrates that competition for space--the [...]
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The grad students in my department recently cleaned up their student lounge. Some wag, remembering a line from my course — Coase’s famous dismissal of the “old” institutional economists — tagged a stack of papers thusly:
Posted in - Klein -, New Institutional Economics [...] On an average day, two pedestrians are killed by motor vehicles in the UK.
Only two pedestrian per year are killed by bicycles, almost always on the road.
On pavements and verges, motor vehicles kill around [...]
I had lunch last week with Rolfe Winkler, who is an up and comer in the blog world, a thinking man’s Felix Salmon.
He is similarly annoyed with St. Warren — but rather than engage in my sophmoric venom spew, he went to the spreadsheet to discover that Buffet owns [...]
The subtitle is An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia and the author is James C. Scott of Yale University. Here is a summary from the Preface:
...I argue that the [Southeast Asian] hill peoples are best understood as runaway, fugitive, maroon communities who have, over the course of two [...]
Something in the China-America relationship has to give
THESE stories are increasingly troubling:China denounced new U.S. anti-dumping duties on steel pipes as protectionist on Friday and opened an investigation into imports of U.S.-made automobiles, about a week before President Barack Obama is scheduled to arrive for a visit. Beijing [...]
This is way too funny:
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The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c The 11/3 Project www.thedailyshow.com Daily ShowRandall Forsyth steps in occasionally for the Up and Down Wall Street column when Alan Abelson is on vacation or otherwise indisposed. He writes with a similar skepticism, perhaps not as dark as Abelson’s, his prose sparer, a tad less purple.
Beyond the literary mechanics, however, Forsyth’s grasp of all that [...]
