The Economic Battlefield of the NBA Lockout
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…
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…
…an eyebrow to read that 72 percent of us support something that only 8 percent of us can define. That said, there are other surprises: Professor David Keith of Harvard…
…the AP’s David Sharp reporting on the complexities: The ballot is too complicated to be understood by the city’s voting machines, so only first-place votes will be announced on the…
Photo: Megan Garner In today’s Journal, David Wessel nails it. (If you ask me, Wessel nails it consistently.) First, he asks the question that needs to be asked: It has…
…the total contribution to healthcare spending, is not simply theoretical. In the New England Journal of Medicine, one of the world’s leading medical journals, Harvard physicians Steffie Woolhandler and David…
…drinking water, thus exposing the population at large. The researchers, David Margel and Neil Fleshner, found a significant correlation between the use of oral contraceptives and mortality from prostate cancer….
…James White and G. David Batty published their study online in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, and looked at data from almost 8,000 people over several decades to…
…is worth noting that a piece of eye-grabbing research often does get massively exposed and then, if corrected, the correction tends to gather dust. Consider David Freedman‘s excellent Atlantic piece…
…most troubling. Note: this is not Mulligan’s first paper on the topic. Related, and also interesting: a new paper by David Berger about labor productivity and unions, summarized well here…
…in the Q&A with David Shenk). The how of learning is deliberate practice. For example, in school and college, to develop mathematics and science expertise, we must somehow think deeply…
…relationship between religious and ethnic diversity and charitable donations by looking at Canadian census data and tax records. Authors James Andereoni, Abigail Payne, Justin D. Smith and David Karp argue…
There’s a nasty secret about hot-button topics like global warming — knowledge is not always power.
