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Do First Year Classes at Yale Law School Influence Student Ideology?
Do First Year Classes at Yale Law School Influence Student Ideology?
Dec 30th
Some Drought Economics
Some Drought Economics
Dec 30th
My Disagreement with Stanford QB Andrew Luck
My Disagreement with Stanford QB Andrew Luck
Dec 29th
Can Safe Public Parks Cause More Crime?
Can Safe Public Parks Cause More Crime?
Dec 29th
Two Green Links
Two Green Links
Dec 28th
Electricity Demand in China
Electricity Demand in China
Dec 27th
The Wisdom of Crowds
The Wisdom of Crowds
Dec 27th
Lost in Translation?
Lost in Translation?
Dec 26th
Long Run Trends in Government Employment
Long Run Trends in Government Employment
Dec 24th
2012 and Climate Change Adaptation
2012 and Climate Change Adaptation
Dec 23rd
Localized Externalities and the Coase Theorem
Localized Externalities and the Coase Theorem
Dec 22nd
Preparing for a Busy 2012
Preparing for a Busy 2012
Dec 22nd
How Will California Achieve its 33% RPS Goal?
How Will California Achieve its 33% RPS Goal?
Dec 20th
Are Economists Good People?
Are Economists Good People?
Dec 18th
A Link on Climate Change Adaptation
A Link on Climate Change Adaptation
Dec 18th
The View from Honolulu
Dec 16th
Adaptation Discussion at Durban
Adaptation Discussion at Durban
Dec 12th
The Ultimate Field Experiment: New Rules in Honduras and the Rise of the Charter City
The Ultimate Field Experiment: New Rules in Honduras and the Rise of the Charter City
Dec 12th
Grading
Grading
Dec 10th
Pollution Havens and International Trade in Lead
Pollution Havens and International Trade in Lead
Dec 8th
Adapting to Wacky Weather
Adapting to Wacky Weather
Dec 8th
Induced Innovation
Induced Innovation
Dec 7th
Smoggy Beijing
Smoggy Beijing
Dec 7th
Carbon Intensity Reduction in China?
Carbon Intensity Reduction in China?
Dec 7th
Does China Offer a Better Quality of Life than the United States?
Does China Offer a Better Quality of Life than the United States?
Dec 6th
Who Occupies Malibu?
Who Occupies Malibu?
Dec 4th
Does Google Books Offer Too Much Intellectual Property?
Does Google Books Offer Too Much Intellectual Property?
Dec 3rd
China's Future Green Cities
China's Future Green Cities
Dec 2nd
Mapping the UCLA Anderson School's Global Impact
Mapping the UCLA Anderson School's Global Impact
Dec 2nd
Popular Posts
Popular Posts
How Will Houston Adapt to the High Heat?
I have moved m y blog over to Substack (and I've lost many readers). Please join me there. Here is a recent column. The Wall Street ...
My "Migration" to Substack
Dear Readers, In recent months, I have posted my public writing to my free Substack. I have such fond memories of Google Blogspot, thus...
Do Econ 101 Teachers Spend Too Much Time on the Pe...
I will be teaching Econ 101 at USC this fall. There will be at least 150 students in my class. There are several Principles textbooks I co...
Shifting Racial and Ethnic Demographics at Los Ang...
Demographic trends appear to matter in determining what products we see supplied in markets. The Los Angeles Times sports section yesterday...
Derek Jeter's Carbon Footprint
Here is a photo of the 30,000 square foot mansion that he doesn't want to talk about in Florida. As a role model, he should make publi...
Lights at Night: The Case of NYC
A team of Brown University economists have used lights at night to study economic growth around the world. You can read their paper here. ...
A Blogger Trying To Provide Public Goods
Some bloggers have suggested that one beneficial role that bloggers offer is helping readers to economize on search costs. We (the bloggers...
Shanghai's World Fair Investments = Superstar City
When I was a kid, we would drive out to Queens, NY to see my grandfather. Along the highway, we would drive past the rusting remains of the...
The Overeducated Chinese Young Person?
In 1976, Richard Freeman's book The Overeducated American was published. In a nutshell he argued that the returns to U.S college educat...
How Will the Rise of WFH Help Us to Adapt to Clima...
Millions of American workers engaged in Work from Home (WFH) during the pandemic. WFH helped us to adapt to the risk of disease contagi...
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