Here’s a list of articles that I have been reading today (organized by topic): Art, Music, and Culture
The High Cost of Ignoring Beauty, by Roger Scruton
“Architecture clearly illustrates the social, environmental, economic, and aesthetic costs of ignoring beauty. We are being torn out of ourselves by the loud gestures of people who want to seize [...]
Here’s a list of articles that I have been reading today (organized by topic): Economics
Krugman to the Rescue, by Steve Landsburg
Financial Crisis
Why No One Expects a Strong Recovery, by Jeb Hensarling and Paul Ryan
“When you repeal sound economic policies you repeal their results.”
Law
Travesty in New York, by Charles Krauthammer
“For late-19th-century anarchists, terrorism was the “propaganda [...]
Here’s a list of articles that I have been reading today (organized by topic): Economics
Parsing the intellectual contributions of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics laureates, Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson.
The day after the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics was announced, there are all sorts of interesting commentaries emerging that parse the intellectual contributions of the [...]
Here’s a list of articles that I have been reading today (organized by topic): Economics and the Financial Crisis
The Next Bailout: Commerical Real Estate, by Jeffrey Miron Did the TARP Increase Lending?, by Casey Mulligan
New York Times: “Economic theory casts significant doubt on the claim that public purchases of bank equity would cause banks to lend [...]
Here’s a list of articles that I have been reading today (organized by topic): Behavioral Economics
The Devil Wears Fake Prada, by Alex Tabarrok
Energy
Energy ‘Sprawl’ and the Green Economy, by Lamar Alexander
Wall Street Journal: “We’re about to destroy the environment in the name of saving it.”
Financial Crisis
The Stimulus Didn’t Work, by John Cogan, John Taylor and [...]
Here’s a list of articles that I have been reading today (organized by topic): Economics and the Financial Crisis
Lessons from the Fall of Lehman, by Donald Marron Debriefing Lehman, by Holman Jenkins
Wall Street Journal: “The time to worry about moral hazard is now.”
Health Care Reform
Mandated Health Insurance Squeezes Those in the Middle, by Vanessa Fuhrmans
Wall Street [...]
Here’s a list of articles that I have been reading today (organized by topic):
Economics and the Financial Crisis
Judging Downturns, by Greg Mankiw
Finance
Eugene F. Fama: Economist
Fama/French Forum: “In an interview conducted by Professor Richard Roll, famed University of Chicago economist Eugene F. Fama discusses his life, research, and contributions to the field of finance.”
Foreign [...]
Here’s a list of articles that I have been reading today (organized by topic): Economics
Positive, Normative, and … ?, by Donald Marron The Least Surprising Correlation of All Time, by Greg Mankiw
Global Warming
Technology Can Fight Global Warming, by Bjorn Lomborg Wall Street Journal: “Marine cloud whitening, and other ideas.”
Health Care Reform
A Strategy to Save Obamacare, But at [...]