I would like to call attention to a short video presentation by Nobel economics laureate Daniel Kahneman on the science of happiness which is well worth watching and thinking about. This video was filmed last month at the TED 2010 conference (held February 9–13 in Long Beach, CA; according to TED’s website, “TED is a small nonprofit devoted to [...]
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): Economics and the Financial Crisis
Stimulus Spending Doesn’t Work, by Robert Barro and Charles Redlick
Wall Street Journal: “Our new research shows no evidence of a Keynesian ‘multiplier’ effect. There is evidence that tax cuts boost growth.”
Foreign Policy
We can’t afford ambivalent president, by [...]
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
Talking Business: Lehman Had to Die So Global Finance Could Live, by Joe Nocera
New York Times: “The Lehman Brothers failure caused a panic that spurred Congress to approve the $700 billion bailout.”
Unboxed: Wall Street’s Math Wizards [...]