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The organization's award to Gabriel Zucman clouds his academic malpractice.

David Graeber Against Economics December 5, 2019

databasecowgirl writes: Commenting in The Times on the absurdity of Meta's copyright infringement claims, Caitlin Moran defines Schrodinger's economics: where a company is both [one of] the most valuable on the planet yet also too poor to pay for the materials it profits from. Ultimately "move fas...

Slate Money talks bad vibes, financial literacy, and Larry Ellison

Early 1600s: Beaver pelts are the one universally accepted medium of exchange, though wheat and moose skins are also legal tender

QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong, I find it remarkable that your model has always been correct in predicting the economy's direction. This latest US inflation number

Sheriff Tom Dart worked with the University of Chicago's Steven Levitt to create a program that could "match" people on EM to reported crimes.

Three lessons in behavioural economics from the little sponge cakes with the smashing orangey bit.

Vignettes scattered through Adam Smith's writing illuminate his arguments. Such thought experiments continue to play a key role in economic analysis today.

We should be skeptical of grand plans couched in terms of economics.

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Nippon Steel says it wants to keep jobs in America as it looks to buy out US Steel. And economists say: that makes sense. But U.S. presidential candidates are pushing back. Today, we'll look at the role politics plays in distorting economics and find out whether that's what's happening in Pennsylvania and some other battleground states.Related episodes:The tensions behind the sale of U.S. Steel (Apple / Spotify)…

Economists dive into the financial impact of Christmas trees—real and artificial alike—on the U.S.

This is a guest post by my Beam co-founder. Context Recently some friends had a nice little exit. A startup they'd joined in the early 2010s got sold for half a billion dollars. They had exercised their options a while back, held onto their stocks, and so walked away with a few hundred thousand dollars pre-tax. Then a wonderful thing happened. They found out the pre-tax value was the same as the post-tax value.…

In 2017, China's chief justice, Zhou Qiang, told legal officials in Beijing to resist "erroneous" ideas from the West like "constitutional democracy," "separation o

Yesterday, I announced on this blog that ChatGPT had failed my economics exam. (All of the questions on this exam are taken from recent final exams in my sophomore-level course at the University of…

Liza Tobin argues that the time has come for the United States and its allies to abandon the notion that competing on a level playing field with China's state-led economy is possible and confron

(Winter 2020) - For centuries, maps have codified the extent of human geographic knowledge and shaped discovery and economic decision-making. Economists across many fields, including urban economics, public finance, political economy, and economic geography, have long employed maps, yet have largely abstracted away from exploring the economic determinants and consequences of maps as a subject of independent study.…

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