2020–2022
778 posts
2022 314
December 2022
- New Textbook for Game Theory and Behavioral Economics
- Cleaning Data and Muddying Water
- Most Improved Data
- Tough Year for Investing (with one little-known, totally safe exception)
- “Let whoever needs to die, die”: China’s Abrupt COVID Reopening To Achieve Rapid Herd Immunity and Resumption of Industrial Production, at the Cost of a Million Deaths
- Christmas Song
- Average US Consumption: 1990 Vs 2021
- College Major, Marriage, and Children Update
- The Wealth of Generations: Latest Update
- Food Price Increases Won’t Be Solved by Raising Interest Rates
- What happened to EconTwitter?
- Empirical Papers for Undergraduate Statistics Students
- AI Can’t Cure a Flaccid Mind
- Farewell to the First Normal Semester in 3 Years
- Inflation-Adjusted Wages Have Been Rising Since June 2022
- Reckless Management Led to BlockFi Crypto Bankruptcy
- Present your work earlier
- Slow Adjustment in Tech Labor for CGO Research
- Inflation, Information, & Logic
- Sympathy for the Sauds
- Message To My Students: Don’t Use AI to Cheat (at least not yet)
- Gambler Ruined: Sam Bankman-Fried’s Bizarre Notions of Risk and the Blow-Up of FTX
- Ideological overconfidence is a trojan horse for entitlement
- Introducing Students to Text Mining II
- The Imperfection of Subgame Perfection
- Ban, Subsidize, Mandate: Ethics and US Healthcare Policy
November 2022
- Fight for $15? $25? $40?
- Protests Erupt Across China Over COVID Policy But Lockdowns Continue: Why?
- Maybe authoritarianism doesn’t scale
- Thankful List in 2022
- Mises’s Interventionism, A Recap
- Thanksgiving Dinner is Once Again More Expensive (But Not the Most Expensive Ever)
- Blogging about Tweet Threads
- The Unimportance of Inflation: Stocks & Flows
- New Data: State Regulatory Procedures
- 8 Billion
- My BlockFi Crypto Account Is Frozen Due to Monster FTX Exchange Blowup
- The long tail of American politics
- New Double Auction Paper
- The Price of Food: Farm to the Table
- Two Types of News: Elections vs Crashes
- But Who Will Build the Roads? 19th Century Edition
- The Sins of TikTok, Part 1: Extreme Privacy Theft by China-Based Company
- On Elon, Twitter, and updating priors
- EWED Recommends Gifts 2022
- Must-Have Practical Gifts
- A Dragonfly’s View of Election Day 2022
- What’s Killing Men Ages 18-39?
- How to Magnetize a Screwdriver (So It Holds onto a Screw)
October 2022
- Harness your compulsions
- An intervention for children to change perceptions of STEM
- Cheers to Sumproduct!
- Bounce Houses are Surprisingly Cheap
- The Only Analysis of the Pennsylvania Senate Debate That You Need To Read
- Can You Use an Expired Home COVID Test?
- Elite private schools and the rents of early talent filters
- Joy Recommends Stuff for Kids 2022
- What do they even want?: Inflation Edition
- Should Virologists Regulate Themselves?
- Mortgage Affordability Since 1971
- Some Random Gifts (Maybe for Yourself) To: Clean Sap/Tar Off Car, Clean Dust from Inside PC, Eat “Forbidden” Black Rice, Glue Almost Anything
- Professional Hunger Games and the costs of filtering out talent too soon
- Willingness to be Paid Treatments
- 6 Tips for Taming Your Inner Spock
- The Quotable Walter Russell Mead
- “The central values of civilization are in danger”
- Administration’s Drastic Drawdown of Strategic Petroleum Reserve Makes Us Vulnerable to Actual Oil Supply Shock
- Why are racists all the same?
- Postmodernism to Poastmodernism
- Svante Pääbo: The Surprising Science behind Who We Are and How We Got Here
- Norway is a Wealthy Country (even after making the appropriate adjustments)
- The Bank of England Bought Bonds Last Week to Keep UK Pension Funds from Imploding
- What should we expect from civilian parking enforcement bounties?
- Public Goods and Spending on lighthouses in Antebellum America
- Willingness to be Paid Paper Accepted
September 2022
- Highlights from EA Global DC
- Millennials Have Caught Up to Boomers: Generational Wealth Update (2022q2)
- Get Easy Government-Guaranteed 4% Interest on Your Money with Treasury Bills
- What I’ve been reading
- Lomborg’s public choice problem
- Credit Card Limits for Men and Women
- Wealth Growth During the Pandemic
- Doobies over Butts: More Americans Now Smoke Marijuana Than Cigarettes
- Firearms, research, and controlling the narrative
- Recent Podcasts about Data Analytics
- The Shrinking Allied Social Science Association
- Grocery Prices and Wages, in the Short Run and the Long Run
- Saving a Rusted Car with Rust Bullet Paint and Cosmoline RP-342 Coating
- Welcome to Wrexam
- Patrick Henry Blog
- McDouble vs Big Mac: Why Inflation Hits the Bottom Harder
- The Cost of Raising a Child
- Putin as the New Hitler: The Russian Political Philosophy Which Justifies Unlimited Atrocities (To Save the World)
- Who’s afraid of ranked choice voting?
- Dog Cartoon Information Warfare for the 21st Century
- Series 65 for Economists
August 2022
- “Superabundance” Review
- High Yield Investing, 2: Types of Funds; Loan Funds; Preferred Stocks
- Papers I’ve been reading
- Economics in Wedding Season
- The Future of Student Debt
- Are Teacher Salaries Held Back by “Bloat” in K-12 Schools?
- High Yield Investments, 1: Some Benefits of High Yield Stocks and Funds
- Don’t just be an input, be an investment
- Ambitious Parenting
- Birmingham AL Coffee Shop Crawl
- A Theory of Certificate of Need Laws and Health Care Spending
- GDP Growth and Inflation in G7 Countries
- Some Countries Use Too Much Fertilizer, and Some Use Too Little
- Six months working a Waffle House griddle and other irreplicable labor market signals
- Business Analytics Textbook plus Discussion Book
- Data Analytics with R Textbook
- Free download: If wages fell during a recession
- CFTC Orders PredictIt Shut Down- Can Political Betting Survive?
- The “Textbook Definition” of a Recession
- Aging Populations = Inevitable Slow GDP Growth?
- The underrated genius of great athletes
- Secret Fun Tech People
- Boutique Science
- Mom Life and Dad Life
- On the Spreading of Monkeypox
- Converting office space and why second-best solutions are what move the world forward
July 2022
- See New York City for free
- Recession or not, the biggest GDP political football is 3 months away
- Dating Recessions: 19th Century Edition
- Is the Bottom Quartile Already in Recession?
- How many of our problems come from captured land value?
- Drone Racing is Poised to Grow
- Trial Updates: Novavax Approved, Potatoes Work
- Are We in A Recession?
- A Logarithmic Map of the Entire Universe, from Earth to Edge
- Severance and the Disutility of Work
- Perks in Severance
- A Gauche Gift
- From the Maine Woods
- GDP Growth and Excess Mortality in the G7
- The Great Crypto Market Meltdown of 2022
- Be Like Pete
- Birmingham AL hosts The World Games
- Market Concentration & Inflation
- Job Lock is Still Here
- On Vacation, Does the Law of Demand Apply?
- Three Tips for More Effective Learning, from Andrew Watson
- The Third Act of American Prohibition
- Teaching with ACS regional data
- Book Review: Big Data Demystified
June 2022
- Notes on Austin and Health Economics
- The Latest GDP Data: First Quarter 2022 in the OECD
- Shifts in Labor Participation: The Great Resignation Becomes the Great Reshuffling
- Labor market tournaments and the cost of almost making it
- The World is Watching Top Gun Maverick
- Everyone’s an Expert: Easy Data Maps in Excel
- Irish Superman: 4 Weeks of Potatoes
- US Households Have a Lot More Income Than 1967, and It’s Probably Not Just Because of the Rise of Dual-Income Households
- The NFT Market Is Mushrooming – Why??
- The story of social media isn’t over
- Nudging Students to Choose a Major
- Inflation for Thee, But Temporarily Not for FL
- Is this the peak of inflation?
- How Zoning Affects Your Home, Your City, and Your Life (a book review)
- Raging Inflation, Spiking Rates, Plunging Stocks, Oh, My!
- It’s nice going to the movies again
- Thoughts for the week on podcasts and the Constitution
- Not so Great Expectations
- Cost Plus Drugs
- Violence, Guns, and Policy in the United States
- Economic Underpinnings of the Renaissance in Northern Italy
- The Political Economy of Crazy
- No in-group bias from financial choices in latest experiment
- Post Pandemic Vacation Arbitrage
- Unfashionable Investing
- If I Had 2 Million Dollars
May 2022
- Mixed Messages on the World Economy from the 2022 Davos Meeting
- What Moved My Priors: Homicide in London
- Artificial Intelligence in the Basement of Lumon Industries
- The Economics of Good Gift Giving
- Get rich or get famous? Edward Thorp vs Myron Scholes
- Can Homer Simpson Afford to Send Bart to Springfield University?
- Overview of Peak Oil Theory
- I have Covid
- Lumon Industries and Drudgery
- Human Capital is Socially Contingent
- Why Many Substance Use Treatment Facilities Don’t Take Insurance
- COVID Deaths, Excess Deaths, and the Non-Elderly (Revisited)
- Crypto Drama: $40 Billon Vaporized as Terra “Stablecoin” and Luna Implode; Bored Ape NFTs Break Ethereum
- 7 Quick Takes of Undeniable Insight, Absent Evidence or Significant Explanation
- Birthday presents at school parties
- Inviting the whole class to a birthday
- Children Are Not 3/55ths of a Person
- College Major, Marriage, and Children
- Inflation Has Wiped Out Average Wage Gains During the Pandemic (maybe)
- Raspberry Pi 400 Review: A $100 Desktop PC?
- The propaganda premium puzzle
- Automation report from 1958
- Covid-19 Didn’t Break the Supply Chains. You Did.
- Eat 20 Potatoes a Day…. For Science
- What if You Didn’t Have to File a Tax Return?
- How to Read Aloud Kindle and Other Text on iPhone, iPad, and Android
- Let’s Talk about the NBER
April 2022
- Content moderation strategy
- AS-AD: From Levels to Percent
- Inflation and GDP Growth Around the World
- Are the COVID Vaccines Effective at Preventing Death?
- New Fossil Discoveries Shed Light on When and How the Dinosaurs Died Out
- Attention as Rational Addiction
- The New Econ Bloggers
- In Praise of the FRED Excel Add-in
- Fed Dot Plot vs Markets
- How to Get People Vaccinated for 93 Cents
- Musk, Twitter, and Poison Pills
- We can’t leave internal affairs to the police anymore
- John List, Dramatist
- Dressed for Recess(ion)
- The Fed is Still Under-Reacting to Inflation
- Inflation During the Pandemic in the OECD
- The Congress That Berated Oil Companies for Producing Oil Is Now Berating Them for Not Producing Oil
- Religion at its best can protect science from politics at its worst
- Is Las Vegas decadent?
- It’s Still Hard to Find Good Help These Days
- Highlights from EAGx Boston
- Deficits Are Here to Stay
- The Different Classes of Crypto Stablecoins and Why It Matters
- Happiness is Zeno’s hedonic treadmill
- A paper idea in Stigler (1964) on Oligopoly
- When Keynes was gearing up for a second war
- Amazon Credit Card Rewards
March 2022
- Tradle
- $5,000 Worth of Vaccines Saves One Life
- Musk versus Putin: Fists and Bytes
- Do people actually feel trapped in their careers?
- Counting the missing poor in pre-industrial societies
- The Carousel of Stupid
- Covid Evidence: Supply Vs Demand Shock
- Post Tenure Agenda
- What Was a “Normal Person” 50 Years Ago?
- West’s Seizing of Russian Foreign Reserves May Lead to Rise of Commodities as Money
- College sports are better when they’re worse
- The price of nails since 1695 and its lessons
- Disney World is not Decadent
- This Time was Way Different
- Main Street Entrepreneurship is Back
- The Transition to a Market Economy: Did Former Soviet Republics Fail?
- Truth As a Casualty of Wars
- Why Agent-Based Modeling Never Happened in Economics
- School workbooks recommendation
- Russia, The US, and Crude Data
- FTX Future Fund
- Gas Prices are High — But Don’t Adjust Them for Inflation!
- How Overzealous Green Policies Force Europe to Bankroll Putin’s Military
- All good Bayesians should donate to the Ukraine today
- Subtle ways to sneak in rationality
- The War on Ukraine
- Two Decades of Real Estate Data
- Lessons from a Failed Merger
- The Taxman Comes for Homer
- How Volodymyr Zelenskyy Went from Playing the Ukrainian President in A Sitcom to Actually Being the Ukrainian President
February 2022
- Putin vs. the Cost Disease of Better Lives
- “Using word analysis to track the evolution of emotional well-being in nineteenth-century industrializing Britain”
- How to Set Working Directory in R for Replication Packages
- Inflation Empirics
- Economics of the Russia-Ukraine Conflict
- Home(r) Economics
- Economics of an Alabama Small Farm Homestead
- Fame makes for poor human capital
- Context and age and soft skills
- Asymmetric Liability, Common Law, & Urbanization
- Health Insurance Benefit Mandates and Health Care Affordability
- Is Global Capitalism Increasing Poverty?
- Half of Deliberately Exposed Unvaccinated Volunteers in UK Study Did Not Get COVID; Why?
- We’re all paying the Karen tax
- Vaccine persuasion is cheaper
- Did we repeat the Christmas Covid Wave?
- Mises’s Bureaucracy, a Recap
- What Proportion of Journalists Live in NYC?
- What’s a Sewer Worth?
- Controversial Study Finds Lockdowns Don’t Reduce COVID Mortality; Some Less Controversial Takeaways
- The dangers of high status, low wage jobs
- Economics, Economic Freedom and the Olympics
- Day care and new pre-K findings
- Teaching Price Controls (Poorly)
- SCORE Replications- Final Call
- Are Special Elections Special?
- “Pfumvudza” Planting Technique Revolutionizes Crop Yields in Zimbabwe
January 2022
- New ideas are the easy part
- On Lockdowns and Hospital Capacity
- Modern loneliness in Toy Story 4 and Taylor Swift
- Fences, Schools, Dryer Lint, & Shower Levers
- South Carolina Certificate of Need Repeal
- Is the Labor Market Back?
- European Energy Crisis, Updated: Germans Shut Down Perfectly Good Nuclear Plants, Utilities Send Socks to Shivering Customers and Advise Eating Porridge
- Kitchen staff were canaries in the coal mine
- Pledging for effective altruism
- Housing & The Fed’s Reputation
- Has the Economic Theory Job Market Returned to Equilibrium?
- Are Car Accidents Getting Labeled as “COVID Deaths”?
- Ongoing Drama with Turkey’s Currency: Heterodoxy or Lunacy?
- So much was taken from him
- Empirical Austrian Economics?
- What we pay for the thing that some workers do that most people do not
- Optimal Policy & Technological Contingency
- The Return of Independent Research
- Latest Inflation Data: Hot Dogs and Cheese On Sale!
- Primary Driver for This Inflation Is Surging Demand (Fueled by COVID Payments), Not Supply Chain Constraints
- Infrastructure can only happen if we’re allowed to build it
- Elasticity of Substitution or Why Simple Tools Teach Us Tons
- Remittances Eye-tracking Experiment: Meet the authors and paper
- The Justice Dividend
- Best Books 2021
- Really Stable Prices
- How Many Semiconductor Chips Are There in a Car?
- When is it rational to give up on Covid?
- A paper that needs to be written: Does WebMD save lives?
- Fiction for Christmas
- Happy New Year!
2021 339
December 2021
- Is an Academic Career Still Worth It?
- 2021: Our Most Popular Posts
- Mouse Wars: Amazon Mousetrap Reviews as Literature
- Effective Advocacy
- Christmas Day
- Using Economics to Save Presents from the Economists
- Certificate of Need and Mental Health
- Is Travel Back?
- How Can Cryptocurrency Accounts Pay Such High Interest?
- Something is going on with shoplifting
- Book Review: Cronyism: Liberty versus Power in Early America, 1607–1849
- Will we repeat the Christmas Covid wave?
- Covid-19 & The Federal Reserve
- Hospital Merger Update
- 800,000 Deaths? Or 1 Million Deaths?
- Earning Steady 9% Interest in My New Crypto Account
- What would a Great Reorganization look like?
- Car Prices and Quality
- Watching Get Back
- PSNE: No More, No Less
- Lifespan / CNE Merger Economics
- Has Economic Growth Really Slowed Since 1970?
- Opening My New Crypto Account: Plaid App Wants My Full Bank Login Information
- The stakes have never been higher
- Economic freedom and income mobility
- Getting hired by a bot is unsettling
- Forgiveness is Underprovided
- New: Journal of Comments and Replications in Economics
- Pumpkin Spice: 15th Century Edition
November 2021
- Though the Market Is a Winner, Most Stocks Are Losers
- Welfare programs and black markets
- People of the past were not irrational morons
- If Tyler is talking about a new variant…
- Free Money, Courtesy of Credit Cards
- Happy 400th Thanksgiving from EWED
- This Is Not the Most Expensive Thanksgiving Ever
- 50% Endowment Returns Driven by Private Equity Investments: How Rich Universities Get Richer (But You Can, Too)
- Dry turkey and mediocre side dishes are optimal
- Word Golf is a new online game
- Compulsory Schooling by Gender & Age
- Inflation: Get Concrete, Get Specific
- I’m Excited about a New World’s Fair
- Eliminate the National Debt: Mint Trillion-Dollar Platinum Coins
- What kind of return do we want on our investment?
- Deficits and presidents
- Data continues to improve sports performance
- Buying in Bulk: Money Saver or Self Sabotage?
- Alex Madrigal’s Atlantic Article on Testing Positive for COVID, and Pushbacks
- Inflation is Here. Why? What Can We Do?
- Presentation Today – “Firearms and Violence Under Jim Crow”
- The history of work and the myth of a leisurely past
- Gen Z on The Great Resignation
- You Current Grade: It’s Complicated
- Starship: Quantity has a Quality of its own
- COVID and The Young
- Zuckerberg Wants to Suck You into His Metaverse
- Give someone you love the gift of two hours
October 2021
- Supply chain failures and the O-Ring
- EWED Recommends Gifts 2021
- Joy on Books 2021
- Give the Gift of Cooking and Murder-Bears
- What to Read: Claudia Goldin’s Career and Family
- Book Recommendation: “How the Irish Saved Civilization”
- Go watch Dune
- Joy Recommends Running Products
- Gen Z on TikTok
- Stocking Stuffers: First Mover Advantage & Nested Utility Functions
- Gifts for a Time of Inflation and Supply Bottlenecks
- You Need a Better Battery
- Some Gear I Like: Keychain Light, Helicopter Spinner Toy, and Folding Bicycle
- La Dolce Vita Economica
- Reading Slavery and American Economic Development
- Polarized Americans in 1840
- The (Employment) Depressing Child Tax Credit
- The Credibility Revolution: A Nobel for Taking (some of) the CON out of Econometrics
- A Nobel for What?
- Growing/Shrinking Jobs of Next Decade: Good Times Ahead for Nurse Practitioners, Wind Turbine Technicians, and Animal Trainers
- Soccer has become a Tragedy of the Commons
- Calling Behavioral Economics a Fad
- Forecasting that Job Growth Would Continue
- Inflation: Not Merely a Monetary Phenomenon
- Weigh costs, benefits, and evidence quality
- Racial Gaps and Data Gaps
- China Cracks Down on Cryptocurrencies
- Grade inflation is making our students too risk averse
- The high cost of day care and demographics
- Markets in Everything for Christmas Decorating
- Social Security: Not a Great/Terrible Investment
September 2021
- Tyler Cowen, Talent Curator
- The Half-Life of Policy Rationales
- Europe Natural Gas Shortage: Factories Shut, Maybe Worse to Come
- Evolutionary Science and Gresham’s Law of Ideas
- Clemens and Strain on Large and Small Minimum Wage Changes
- Human Capital and Filepaths
- Avoiding Intertemporal Idiosyncratic Risk
- Covid, Cars, China, Crypto, Corruption
- Selectivity and Selection Bias: Are Selective Colleges Better?
- Likely Collapse of Chinese Real Estate Conglomerate Evergrande Roils World Markets
- An Economic Model of Loneliness and Being Extremely Online
- Behavioral Economist at Work
- Vernon Smith on Behavioral in 2008
- Purchasing Drinks with Push-ups.
- Why Do We Care About Inflation?
- In States that Ended the Extra $300/Week Unemployment Benefits, People Returned to Work at Over Twice the Rate than in the Other States
- The Strengths and Weaknesses of Contrarianism
- Behavioral Economics Conversation: Cutler and Glaeser
- 20 Years To The Day
- Redesigning Unemployment Insurance
- Why do Costa Ricans outlive Americans?
- GDP Losses and COVID Deaths (6 month update)
- On Manufacturing Collectability
- Government Elimination of Perceived Vices
- Video Games: Emily Oster, Are the kids alright?
- Streaming Content: Scattering Vs Dumping
- Institutions Getting Smarter on Covid
- Who is the Wealthiest Generation?
August 2021
- Suggestions for Comfortable and Effective Face Masks, e.g., Korean KF94’s
- We need City-States
- One Year of EWED Blogging
- This One’s For the Girls
- Inequality VS the Environment
- Remote Work vs Employer Power: Why I’m Not Sweating Tenure
- Would You Pay $3,000 to Not Wear a Mask?
- Yet Another Way to Save the Planet: Eat Bugs
- Scrolling Alone
- Go urban, young man
- The War of Ideas Isn’t Over
- Have you heard about Human Capital?
- Anti-coercive ways to fight Delta
- Back to School! But what’s up with college pricing?
- Lightning Strike Out My Back Door
- When to weigh in on human suffering
- Right now
- Home for a Millennial
- Penny-Pinchers Gonna Pinch
- Generous Health Insurance Makes Employees Stay
- Beer, Hot Dogs, and Inflation
- Liquid Smoke Flavorings Give Less Carcinogens Than Smoked Meat and Fish
- Age ___ Do you smoke Y/N Will you get vaccinated Y/N
- Reading The Family Firm
- Preferences for Equality and Efficiency
- A Canned-Beer Kind of Guy
- Delta: Danger is Rising, but 2021 is not 2020
- Vaccine Lotteries: They Work!
- Air Fryer: Redundant, Self-Indulgent Counter-Space-Waster?
- What happens when you can’t pay your employees in cool anymore
- Knowledge for 1990 Children
July 2021
- Self interest and self care
- Simone Biles and the Trojan War
- The Recession Is Over! (15 months ago)
- Why is the COVID Delta Variant So Infectious?
- Another marginal cost bites the dust?
- How to Talk to People (elderly and children)
- What Women Want
- Informational Diabetes
- COVID Deaths and Middle Age
- Making Sunbaked Essene Bread: Snatching Victory from the Jaws of Sprouting Defeat
- Innovation in Consumption Goods will Never Stagnate
- Learning is FUNdamental
- The Research Process: Getting It Out the Door
- Alabama Demographic Change
- Cars Are Likely to Stay Expensive for Years
- Cars, Inflation, and the Quantity Theory of Money
- Three Things I Have Learned About Growing Sprouts
- It’s a Trap!
- Scale and Online Learning
- CEA on Inflation Today and WWII
- You Shouldn’t Be Writing (All the Time)
- “Zoning Taxes” — The Cost of Residential Land Use Restrictions
- Condo Building Collapse in Miami: Causes and Consequences
- Happy Fourth of July
- Results on stability and gift-exchange
- The Research Process: It’s Us Against the Blinking Cursors of the World
- The Question of When to Act
- Editing: You Figure It Out
June 2021
- Steve Horwitz on “The Graduate Student Disease”
- 1970’s SNL on the Problem of Inflation
- DIY and The Limits of Comparative Advantage
- Philosopher dude, c. 1770
- Sympathy and Predicting Behavior
- Predicting the NYC Mayoral Race
- Should Andrew Yang Wait to Concede?
- Rudyard Kipling As Macroeconomic Commentator
- Information Deserts
- Fertility and Choices
- Chapman Economic Forecast 2021
- The Research Process: Building and Utilizing a Research Network
- How Will Rich Country Fertility Ever Get Back Above Replacement?
- Temporary Income Shocks
- The Internet Knows Everything
- Rules, Discretion, and Privilege
- Paul Fain Highlights Illiteracy
- Thread on Programming Ability
- Endless Frontiers: Old-School Pork or New Cold War Tech Race?
- What Is Income?
- Should student debt be dischargeable in bankruptcy?
- History according to Polybius
- Overfitting Celebrity Pitches
- The Research Process: Identifying the Ideas that Motivate You
- Does Cohabitation Predict Divorce?
- Publications as Positional Goods, and the Division of Labor in Academia
- The Rise and Fall (?) of Bitcoin Price
May 2021
- Academic Publishing: How I think we got here
- John Duffy Experiments and Crypto
- More computer jobs than San Francisco
- What Forex says about cheap travel
- Laboratories of Democracy in Pandemic
- Composting Toilets May Help Save the World
- A Simple Model of Why Everyone is Overpaid Except You
- Teaching through my R mistakes
- Reading Sarah Ruden’s The Gospels
- Population Predicts Regulation
- Flying the Friendly Skies (Today and in the Past)
- DarkSide Goes Too Far with Colonial Pipeline Ransomware Attack
- The Revealed Preferences of the National Hockey League
- If you are ever in Birmingham AL…
- Not all robots have faces
- When will housing prices fall?
- Let’s Talk About Inflation
- Bracing for the Swarm of “Charismatic” Cicada Bugs
- You simply must go
- Covid Pandemic Diary Part 2
- Covid Pandemic Diary Part 1
- Bad Jobs Exist
- The Pappy Pricing Puzzle
- Was “World War II” Just a Myth?
- Active empathy makes for better research
- Write Repeat
- The Epsilon Delta Sorority
April 2021
- Hyperinflationary Efficiency?
- Are Poor Americans Really as Rich as Average Canadians?
- The Top Shot Blockchain Phenomenon
- I could do better
- Current Research on the Gig Economy – Palagashvili
- Current Research on the Gig Economy – Koustas
- Singing IPUMS Praises
- Old Lives Matter
- Stoned Age Cave Paintings
- Don’t arbitrage time with friends
- R.I.P. Borders
- Blood Clots for You and Me
- The Tall and Short of Student Experience
- The Value of Life, Again
- Facebook Disrupts a Phishing Spy Campaign
- The Problem is the Science
- Joy’s Cartoon is in a French Textbook
- Growing a Financial Advisory Practice Using Data
- Teaching Economics with COVID
- Thank you Tyler and Alex
- Created By
- Easter Post
- Tesla and Data Privacy
- Compulsory Schooling by Sex
March 2021
- The Impact of the Pandemic on US States: GDP and Deaths
- Moneyball for March Madness
- On Cylindrical Revolutions
- The Future of the World’s Tiniest Billboards
- Why Is Europe’s Vaccination Lagging So Far Behind?
- Wait for the Lower Cost Version of Policy
- Working Hard for the Money
- Chip Shortages Shutting Down Auto Assembly Lines; Buy Your Car Now Or Else
- Berkson’s Paradox nay Bias and Spring Break Blogging
- Can 5G Hurt You?
- Buchanan Programming Paper Featured by CGO
- Thoughts on end-of-semester lectures (Part 1)
- School Attendance as State Capacity
- The Luck (?) of the Irish
- New Dead Sea Cave Finds: Scrolls, 10,500-year Old Basket, Lice Comb, etc.
- Consumption as Inflation Hedge
- Power Drill Versus Python 3.9
- Retailer Support for Consumer to Consumer
- Rationality and economics
- Reading Literacy Data
- Dow 1,000,000?
- Cryptocurrencies 3. Blockchain: The Ingenious Basis of Bitcoin
- Political Poverty is a Choice
- Business Analytics Textbook with R
- Buy Nothing Groups
- GDP Growth in 2020
- Cryptocurrencies 2. How Hashing Puts the Crypto in “Cryptocurrency”
- Dolly Parton and the Danger of Doing What You Love
February 2021
- Data Landfill
- In Defense of Austenland (2013)
- Date-onomics
- An Economist Learns Piano: Part 1
- Economic Research on COVID-19
- Cryptocurrencies, 1: What Exactly Is Bitcoin?
- Academia as tax shelter
- Emily Oster on Vaccines in February 2021
- Gen Z on Deep Work
- Education and Marriage
- Sunk Costs and The Sense of Self
- The Role of Prices in an Emergency, Winter Storm Edition
- The Massive SolarWinds Hack: A Work of Art
- You’ll Never Walk Alone…to the Moon🚀?
- Markets in Everything for school Valentine’s
- Charities will pick up used stuff but not businesses
- Economics of Romance
- Age-Old Dads
- Broad Base, Low Rates: Every US State Fails on Good Sales Tax Principles
- Why Short Selling Is a Good Thing for the Stock Market and Investors Large and Small
- I Miss Paying Rent
- How to get rid of toy clutter
- Talking about redistribution in the lab
- Helpful Teaching Resources
- Vegetarian Culpability Part 2 (Economics of Information Edition)
- Coase and COVID
- Reddit GameStop Stock Bubble Deflates; Roaring Kitty Speaks; Hearings Loom
- The Matriculant Theory of Value
- Andrew Weaver is Searching for the Skills Gap
January 2021
- Will GameStop be as profitable as “Roaring Kitty” predicted in 2019?
- Sex Ratios and the Marriage Market: WW1
- The GameStop Short Squeeze: Swarm of Small Investors Stings Wall Street Hedge Funds
- Vegetarian Culpability
- Minimum Wage vs. EITC: Who Pays?
- How Whales Got To Be Whales
- The Minimum Wage as Capitulation
- Going back to the gym?
- The Sound of Silence
- The idea of a “marriage market”
- Vegetarians and Profits
- How Should We Teach Public Goods Theory?
- The Kalecki Profit Equation: Why Government Deficit Spending (Typically) MUST Boost Corporate Earnings
- An Army of Fools
- Leopold on supply chain independence
- Fitbit got 2 billion and all I got was an email
- Taxes and Commitment
- What’s the Worst Tax?
- QE, Stock Prices, and TINA
- Rules versus Discretion in Soccer a.k.a. Football
- Female orphan with superpowers stories
- Chesterton on Patriotism
- The Church and Public Assistance
- Voluntary Facebook Friend Purges
- Excess Mortality in 2020
- The Feel of Money
- The Political Center is Endogenous to You
- Gender and computer attitudes
- Dan Wang’s 2020 letter on China
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December 2020
- Economists Watching Vaccines Every Day
- Vaccine Innovation: A Marvel of Modern Science and Modern Markets
- The Many Faces of Molasses
- One Acceptable Truth or a Million Fantasies
- Church Attendance and Covid
- Scheduling The Day
- Logrolling: An Efficient Institution
- Where Does Money Come From?
- Invasion of the Cooperation Snatchers
- Biden Signs Turn Into Christmas Lights
- 2020 Holiday Viewing
- Vaccine Allocation
- Allocating the vaccines: central planning or the free market?
- “Rapid Uncontrolled Disassembly”: Musk’s Positive Take on Rocket Explosion
- Number of Nice Days
- Ball and Romer Sticky Prices as Coordination Failure
- Visual Decision Trees in SAS Viya
- Civil society and purpose
- Reflections on Teaching in Fall 2020
- Thanks for the Patent System
- Alabama’s Covid Data Hero
- Teaching with SAS Viya for Learners: Last Report
- Treating Marriage like a Luxury Good
- “Firearms and Violence Under Jim Crow”
- Peering Inside the Balance Sheet of the Fed
November 2020
- Meaningful Life and The Queen’s Gambit
- Saving the Chattanooga pedestrian bridge
- Thanksgiving Thoughts: Should I Be Cooking More Soup?
- Happy Thanksgiving 2020
- YLL or VSL? Cost-Benefit Analysis in the Year of COVID
- Data Heroes
- New Research on Stress
- Locals react to new condos
- Markets and Sentiment
- Third Quarter Check-In: COVID and GDP
- Financial Alchemy: Collateralized Loan Obligations (CLOs) Transform Junk Loans into Investment Grade Securities
- Complacency and American Girl Dolls
- Twitter flags versus censorship
- Veil of Ignorance
- Charter Cities and Genetic Algorithms
- Two Papers on the 1966 Minimum Wage Increase
- Raising Cash: Corporate Bonds versus Corporate Loans
- The Joad Family in 2020
- When will computers accurately predict elections?
- Introducing Students to Text Mining
- The taste buds of justice
- Huge Prison Population in the U.S.
- Strange overnight switch in 2020 election betting markets
- Florida’s Minimum Wage Experiment
- The New Social Media Influence in the 2020 Presidential Election
- Eli Dourado on the election today
- Esports Projected Growth
- EWED Recommends Gifts for 2020 Holidays
October 2020
- Gift for adults in cold weather
- Running on Fumes
- Ice
- Brighten Your Day with a Light Therapy Lamp
- Joy Recommends Toys 2020
- Gen Z on “The Social Dilemma”
- Election Forecast by 538
- The Sabbath
- To Understand the Pandemic, Look to History (Economic History)
- Camping in Style in an “Instant Cabin” Tent
- Gen Z reads The Complacent Class, Review #2
- Gen Z reads The Complacent Class
- Joy on Books for 2020 Holiday
- If wages fell during a recession
- Good Old Lemons
- Certificate of Need Laws
- The statistically diverse curriculum
- How to Think About Inequality Data and Public Policy
- Review of: “How the Scots Invented the Modern World”, by Arthur Herman
- 2020 Nobel Prize to Milgrom and Wilson
- American Moments
- Aggregate Demand Regimes
- Economists and Cocktail Parties
- Spontaneous Emergence of Property Rights in the Classroom
- Economic Research on Gender, Race & Ethnicity, and Inequality
- Timeline of the Global Financial Crisis, Part 1: January-September, 2008
- How Bayesians Read a Think Piece
- Only Real Quotes
- Why Eliminate Water Subsidies when we could Reform Our Entire Society?
- Experience at a lower price
- Bart Wilson on “The Property Species: Mine, Yours, and the Human Mind”
September 2020
- OK, Millennial?
- C. S. Lewis on the Medieval Mind
- Affording a second child
- Bullfighting with cars and economic development
- Proxy Culture Wars 1
- Slips of the Atheist’s Expert Tongue
- Political Polarization and Social Distancing
- On Co-production
- Abraham and Kearney on the Decline in Employment
- The Powerful Allure of R0 < 1
- Easy Baking: Popovers and Soda Bread
- The Problem of Paying Attention in Online Classes
- How HOAs are Born
- Economists, look to beauty
- Thoughts on “The Social Dilemma” Documentary
- Can I Borrow Your Reference Point?
- How Much Money Is There?
- Two short polls on work habits
- Kids Helping with Chores and Adult Time Use
- Probably Proportions
- Thoughts from the 55 hour non-stop ESA Conference
- Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin Interview
- Yglesias ‘One Billion Americans’ CWT podcast
- Money as a Social Construct
- The Most Valuable Class I Took
- I have seen a Trump boat parade
- A Covid Conversation… But with Humility.
- Teaching with SAS Viya: First Report
- Least Hypocritical Artist: Rich Mullins
- Leaves Drop in August
- Views on Christian Atonement