Why the NBA Players Keep Losing to the Owners
The following is a guest post by David Berri, a Professor of Economics at Southern Utah University. He is also the lead author of Stumbling on Wins, the general manager…
There are more than twice as many suicides as murders in the U.S., but suicide attracts far less scrutiny. Freakonomics Radio digs through the numbers and finds all kinds of…
The following is a guest post by David Berri, a Professor of Economics at Southern Utah University. He is also the lead author of Stumbling on Wins, the general manager…
The following is a guest post by David Berri, a Professor of Economics at Southern Utah University. He is also the lead author of Stumbling on Wins, the general manager…
Photo: iStockphoto Collection David Pennock is one of the smartest guys I know. As a scientist at Yahoo! Research, he’s on the bleeding edge of computer scientists working at the…
The following is a guest post by David Berri, a Professor of Economics at Southern Utah University. He is also the lead author of Stumbling on Wins, the general manager…
Photo: Rubenstein Here’s what the Red Sox slugger had to say recently about the sour streak his team has been on lately, endangering its playoff hopes: “There’s nobody to blame…
…evaporated when I tracked down the brains behind the site, David Sukhin.? It turns out that David is just a junior in high school in New Jersey.? “I made the…
The following is a guest post by David Berri, a Professor of Economics at Southern Utah University. He is also the lead author of Stumbling on Wins, the general manager…
The following is a guest post by David Berri, a Professor of Economics at Southern Utah University. He is also the lead author of Stumbling On Wins: Two Economists Expose…
…Bloom,?David Lee,?Marianne Bertrand,?Armin Falk and?David Autor, among other labor luminaries. The prize has a few special connections for Betsey, too.? The?late, great John Dunlop was a former Secretary of Labor…
…bottling line was added in 1895 by David’s son, Frederick Yuengling. Both David and Frederick ran the company until their death. The next generation of Yuenglings: (from left) Wendy Yuengling…
Could it be that cities are “our greatest invention” – that, despite their reputation as soot-spewing engines of doom, they in fact make us richer, smarter, happier and (gulp) greener?…
We worship the tradition of handing off a family business to the next generation. But is that really such a good idea?
Conspicuous conservation is about showing off your environmental bona fides. In other words, if you lean green, there’s extra value in being seen leaning green.
The latest issue of The Economists’ Voice is a special issue on health care reform. David Cutler explains the economics of health reform, while Mark Duggan and Robert Kocher weigh…
…who lost their jobs before tenure, likely for exercising their academic freedom: – David Noble (now deceased), who was denied tenure in the Science, Technology, and Society department at MIT….
…fired off some questions to sports economist Dave Berri, who was kind enough to offer some quick responses. Three quick questions on the NFL CBA: 1. Will the lockout impact…
…play. This makes for a less exciting September, with fewer fans acquiring an interest in October baseball. Therefore, I think division-less leagues are not likely. Dave Berri is a…
…sometimes my own papers are held by scholarly journals for a year, as the journal waits on reviews by one or more delinquent reviewers.? David?Figlio of Northwestern University has proposed…
…reported by Michael Salfino in a Wall Street Journal article this past Saturday.? Nearly a decade ago, I was the editor on David Romer‘s Journal of Political Economy paper that…
Over at Economic Principals, David Warsh reveals little-known facts about Paul Samuelson‘s acuity as an investor and his involvement in an early hedge fund called Commodities Corp.: “Long famous for…
…Croker, David Boniface, Martin R. Yeomans and Jane Wardle) rewarded kids stickers or verbal praise for eating vegetables they weren’t very fond of. “After the two-week period, all the intervention…
…action in that same match.) The other subs: David Villa at 63 minutes and Adriano at 79 minutes — just right, according to Myers’s research. But it didn’t work out…
…usually if the dementia arrives it’s many years later. Just like teens who drive irresponsibly – when you’re young?there is the delusion that you’re immortal. –David Chowes, New York City…
…Smart environmentalists love skyscrapers. Henry David Thoreau‘s sylvan lifestyle led him to destroy more than 300 acres of prime woodland (courtesy of an accidental forest fire he sparked).? He would…
…like David Landes and Bernard Lewis. “No one can understand the economic performance of the Muslim nations without attending to the experience of Islam as faith and culture,” wrote?Landes, the…
…certainly getting more alcohol deaths [even as overall alcohol consumption falls],” says David Nutt of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs. “So binge-drinking as an alternative to taking…
…not sure” (no effect). Scientists found that monkeys chose to pass when they found the question too tricky. John David Smith tells the BBC: “Monkeys apparently appreciate when they are…
Photo: David Boyle This past weekend, Microsoft tried to do a little good (donate $100,000) and use that good to market Bing. Here is what happened: Microsoft sent a tweet…