Anti-Dismal

There is a new audio from VoxEU.org in which Imran Rasul of University College London talks to Romesh Vaitilingam about his research with...

At Marginal Revolution Alex Tabarrok raises a couple of interesting points about search-matching models of unemployment. The first puzzl...

At Cafe Hayek Don Boudreaux discusses what would happen if real wars were fought in the same manner as trade wars are fought. He gives a t...

More Burgernomics from The Economist . From the Economist website in article dated July 22nd 2010. The Economist's Big Mac index, shows...

Ricardo J. Caballero has a new NBER working paper out entitled Macroeconomics after the Crisis: Time to Deal with the Pretense-of-Knowledge...

From the New York Times we find out "It was Cédric Villani, a 37-year-old professor at Lyon who won the 2010 Fields Medal, who gave t...

An interesting question, with an on the face of it strange answer, asked by Christian Bjørnskov and Nicolai J. Foss in a new working paper D...

This is the question asked by Tim Worstall . His answer? The major beneficiaries of a degree are the people who hold that degree in the h...

Over at Marginal Revolution Tyler Cowen has written profiles on each of this year’s winners: Diamond , Mortenson , and Pissarides . Alex Tab...

Douglas Irwin of Dartmouth College talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the role the gold standard played in the Great Depression. I...

Stephen Hickson asked this question in yesterdays Press here in Christchurch. Steve teaches in the Department of Economics and the MBA pro...

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2010 has gone to Peter A. Diamond Massachusetts Institute of...

From the Nobel website : On all "Swedish" Nobel medals the name of the Laureate is engraved fully visible on a plate on the reve...

One of the problem with developing a theory of the firm for firms based on human capital is that human capital can not be owned by the firm....

From VoxEU.org come this audio interview : CEPR’s Euro Area Business Cycle Dating Committee has announced that the recession that began in...

From Alex Tabarrok at Marginal Revolution comes the news that Maurice Allais has died. French physicist and economic Nobel Laureate Mauri...

Firm as a Nexus of Markets is a new paper by Ivan Jankovic. The abstract reads: The Austrian School's conventional theory of the firm ...

Bernard Hickey, one of New Zealand's business journalists, has been putting about some rather odd ideas that only prove he doesn't s...

Previous I posted on one way to deal with the free rider problem associated with firefighting. Now Scott Masten over at the Organizations a...

Richard Thaler now leads with a 31% chance of winning, Robert Schiller in on 30%, Martin Weitzman is on 24% and Oliver Hart has a 20% chanc...