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 Africans on the path to
Housing 101
John Arnold points us to this table on new apartments and pointedly notes that the population of LA (18.5 m) is more than 7 times
Moving on Up
James Heckman and Sadegh Eshaghnia have launched a broadside in the WSJ against the Chetty-Hendren paper The Impacts of Neighborhoods on Intergenerational Mobility I: Childhood
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 semester of principles of economics
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 in poorer countries creates tremendous
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 individualist, free market economy trumpet
“A bunch of economists”
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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 misfits solving cold cases—is solid
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 posted on February 10(opens a
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, real value added and industrial