Tuesday, January 30, 2018

Archived articles on note

Margo on Clark, _A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World_

Environmental Capital - WSJ.com : Mighty Wind: How Long Will Economics Work in Favor of Clean Energy?

Game theory explains dinner-party dates. - By Mark Gimein - Slate Magazine

The Volokh Conspiracy » Blog Archive » How Does Cost-Benefit Analysis Draw Lines in the Sand?

The Myth of Financial Deregulation: Government action caused the economic crisis, not the free market. - Reason Magazine

Making and breaking tax systems geary lecture 2012 - LSE Research Online

The Crier Curve: An Engineer's Look at the Laffer Curve

Greg Mankiw's Blog: Spending and Tax Multipliers

All Infrastructure Spending Is Not Created Equally: Randomly pouring billions of dollars into roads won't fix America's gridlocked transportation system - Reason Magazine

Book Lover: A Good Editor Is Hard to Find - WSJ.com Mario Rizzo: A Microeconomist’s Protest.

The late Murray Rothbard on Karl Polanyi: Down With Primitivism: A Thorough Critique of Polanyi

Professor Scott Sumner on The Great Danes.

Peter Leeson on Why Failure is Valuable. What Are Economic Models Good For? - Hit What Occupy Wall Street Gets Wrong About Inequality | Foreign Affairs

Data hubris?
Every five minutes a satellite captures images of China’s biggest cities from space. Thousands of miles away in California, a computer looks at the shadows of the buildings in the images and draws a conclusion: China’s real estate boom is slowing. 21 Economic Models Explained « Organizations and Markets “Your fishtank is not a goldmine.”

Hat tip: Knowledge Problem A little lesson in economics.

Solow Model from Wolfram

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