The Economist Magazine has changed its tone since its new ownership took over. Another example is presented here in a piece that argues that applied microeconomics is a mess. The article makes some reasonable points as it highlights that teasing out cause and effect is difficult.
Glen Weyl gave a great talk at USC yesterday. He presented ideas from his new co-authored book Radical Markets. Here is one of his recent videos. I own two copies of the book and I'm reading one of them! The book is filled with ideas.
Let's play this Bertrand pricing game, I have the set the price of my e-book at $0. Will Greg and Austan lower their books' prices to compete with me? This book's title is: "An Introduction to Empirical Microeconomics".
INET has partnered with several leading academics to create a new documentary video series exploring the boundaries of economics and philosophy. A preview is available here.
The NY Times has written a very good piece about the high costs of public sector defined benefit pension plans.
When Mark Zuckerberg testifies this week in front of Congress, I hope that he agrees to share data to allow for a non-experimental test of whether FB helped Trump to win the election. Here is test.
Given that the NY Times Upshot has written a very interesting piece about the geography of eviction and given that I am teaching graduate urban economics this fall at USC, permit me to make a few points about the economics of housing eviction.
First we need to make some assumptions.
First we need to make some assumptions.
