Politics Roundtable
Brad DeLong
Dean Mark Schissel makes me smarter by emailing to say that I am working off of wrong and out-of-date information. It looks as though at least one of my fears is groundless: insurance companies are not likely take genetic information about folic acid metabolism and use it to ...
Three audio files of the first Econ 1 lecture: Lecture 1, August 30: Introduction to Macroeconomics.
One at:
Economics 1, 001:The others at:
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The consensus seems to be ...
Christina D. Romer says goodbye to Washington:
Not My Father’s Recession: The Extraordinary Challenges and Policy Responses of the First Twenty Months of the Obama Administration: The first recession I really remember was that in 1981-82. I began graduate school just as the economy peaked. Over the ...
Courtesy of Brian Caplan:
Bill Dickens versus the Signaling Model of Education: I take it that you think that nearly all of the value of schooling is signaling? I used to take that view too, but the accumulation of evidence that I've seen leads me to believe ...
Economics of Contempt:
The Unofficial List of Pundits/Experts Who Were Wrong on the Housing Bubble: 1. Alan Reynolds 2. Kevin Hassett 3. James K. Glassman 4. Jude Wanniski 5. Jerry Bowyer 6. Nicolas P. Restinas 7. Jim Cramer 8. Christopher Flanagan 9. Neil Barsky 10. Chris Mayer ...
Air Vice Marshall Keith Park:
September 1st 1940: Contrary to general belief and official reports, the enemy's bombing attacks by day did extensive damage to five of our forward aerodromes and also to six of our seven sector [radar] stations. There was a critical period when the ...