Tuesday, June 24, 2014

The truth about student debt

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The Reality of Student Debt in the New York Times "the share of income that young adults are devoting to loan repayment has remaine...
Thursday, June 5, 2014

For what shall it profit a university if it shall gain AACSB accreditation and lose its own soul?

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Mark Perry argues that the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business is fueling the growth of fraudulent journals by demanding ...
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...