Bradley A. Hansen's Blog

One of my students asked what I thought about bitcoin the other day in class. I told him that I thought Tyler Cowen had made an interesting ...

This is from the Economist, suggesting, in response to Noah Smith, that micro is not the good economics. the author offers up the minimum wa...

    I got back from the ASSA meetings in Philadelphia last night. I had some excellent food. We'll have to go back to  Alma de Cuba...

I just received an email from the British Journal of Economics, Management and Trade. They are currently offering to publish papers for only...

  This not a joke. I keep getting these emails, like the one below, encouraging me to publish in an online open access journal. This one ...

Meera K. ‏ @ MeeraKal 3h @ Austan_Goolsbee can you take my econ final for me tomorrow? It's micro, so you should be okay :) # Please...

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In the New York times, Raj Chetty discusses the Nobel winners and economics as a science.  It is much better than this silly essay by Alex...