Friday, February 28, 2014

Evergreen

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http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/02/28/evergreen-state-colleges-unusual-take-assessment This sounds like a good idea, but I thi...
Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Problems with Bitcoin

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The New York Times reports that "On Monday night, a number of leading Bitcoin companies jointly announced that Mt. Gox, the largest ex...
Monday, February 24, 2014

Economic History in the News

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Gregory Clark of UC Davis describes the results of his recent research in the Sunday New York Times . He uses a large amount of evidence on...

Business Women

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The Washington Post ran a story this morning about a company called FlexProfessionals. The business helps professionals who have been out of...
Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Bitcoin

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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 ...
Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Minimum Wages

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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...
Monday, January 6, 2014

ASSA in Philadelphia

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    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...
Monday, December 16, 2013

More open access

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