ECONOMY

The British War on Slavery

In August of 1833 the British passed legislation abolishing slavery within the British Empire and putting more than 800,000 enslaved…

7 months ago

Housing 101

John Arnold points us to this table on new apartments and pointedly notes that the population of LA (18.5 m)…

7 months ago

Moving on Up

James Heckman and Sadegh Eshaghnia have launched a broadside in the WSJ against the Chetty-Hendren paper The Impacts of Neighborhoods…

7 months ago

Resources for Teaching Tariffs

Trump has put tariffs on the economics agenda in a way that hasn’t been true for decades. As a new…

7 months ago

Singapore’s Pay Model Isn’t India’s: Market Wages vs. Civil-Service Rents

In my post How High Government Pay Wastes Talent and Drains Productivity I pointed to evidence that high government compensation…

7 months ago

The Danger from Japan

Answer: America won. Every generation launches a new competitor to America and the people who don’t like capitalism and America’s…

7 months ago

“A bunch of economists”

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7 months ago

What to Watch (or Not): Ballard, Perfect Days, Billy Joel

Ballard (Amazon Prime) — I liked Bosch, so I had high hopes for this spinoff. The core premise—a team of…

8 months ago

Genius, Rejected: Emergent Ventures Versus the System

Quanta Magazine has a good piece on a 17-year-old student who disproved a long-standing conjecture in harmonic analysis: Yet a paper…

8 months ago

The economics of the U.S. auto industry, a brief history

From Adam Ozimek: The economic value of the cars being made has climbed substantially through the years. As a result,…

8 months ago