Here’s heartening news for all those who believe that economists not only can’t predict the economic future, but can’t even describe the economic past. Daniel Altman, for his Economic View…
Daniel Gross is a very good and quite prolific writer on the economy, from his “Moneybox” columns in Slate to his “Economic View” columns in the New York Times; soon,…
…Slate “Moneybox” columnist and Pop author Daniel Gross bursts the bubble on “Chow for Charity” lunch programs at New York law firms, in which overfed summer associates can elect to…
…books on Amazon released in the last year with “bullshit” in the title. Now, it seems that going after God is the hip thing to do. Daniel Dennett started the…
Read the Column » 1978 New York City Pooper Scooper Law Using Sentence Enhancements to Distinguish Between Deterrence and Incapacitation By Steven D. Levitt and Daniel Kessler…
Please welcome our newest guest blogger, the University of Texas economist Daniel Hamermesh. In a long and distinguished career, Dan has written about everything from the economics of suicide to…
Daniel Solove is amazed by what people will divulge about themselves (and others) online — usually unaware of consequences which can range from stardom to job loss. But in his…
They’re two of the only places a modern business columnist can escape the round-the-clock news cycle. But there’s no true refuge from the business cycle, as Daniel Gross reminds us….
Maybe, maybe not. But here’s the story of how Daniel Drezner, an assistant professor in political science at the University of Chicago (and an active blogger) was just denied tenure….
…ideas, perhaps 2% of which would come to fruition, and mourn the loss of 20 man-hours and what could have been accomplished individually during that time … … and Daniel…
…guy, who’s been riding with a degenerative hip; see Daniel Coyle’s recent profile and, even better, read Coyle’s book Lance Armstrong’s War.) And other American riders have been finishing very…
…of TED without even leaving the house. At TedTalks, a handful of the presentations have been posted, including ones by Al Gore, Larry Brilliant, and Daniel Dennett (who is indirectly…
…Kasper M. Nielsen, Francisco Perez-Gonzalez, and Daniel Wolfenzon. “We find that family successions have a large negative causal impact on firm performance: operating profitability on assets falls by at least…
…Gerber, Dean Karlan, and Daniel Bergan run a field experiment to determine whether the content in a newspaper affects what people believe. They give free newspaper subscriptions to people in…
My colleague and co-author John List is one of the most prolific and influential economists around. He’s got a new working paper with Michael Margolis and Daniel Osgood that makes…
Daniel Gross, who writes good popular economics pieces for Slate, the New York Times, and sometimes New York, published a Times piece on Sunday that will cheer fans of congestion…
…effect on our behavior. One of my favorite graphs in all of social science is the following plot from an inspiring paper by Eric Johnson and Daniel Goldstein. This graph…
…may take a while to learn to navigate your way through the turbulence. In the Wall Street Journal, Daniel Henninger wondered why Mamet’s conversion had received so little play in…
…new study by Daniel Rees and Kevin Schnepel linking crime and sporting events. They analyze daily crime data, but instead of analyzing the changes around the release of new movies,…
Is nuclear energy seeing a resurgence worldwide? (HT: Daniel Lippman) How much does it cost to raise kids in the U.S.? (Earlier) What factors lower the dropout rate the most?…
Shame tactics used on johns. (Earlier) Radiohead asks fans for a new video.(HT: Daniel Lippman) Sick of Sudoku? Go to the Funny Farm. Business schools prefer familiar over revolutionary….
…parents that, in fact, the name doesn’t matter when it comes to career prospects. Or we could have just let them go on thinking it does … (Hat tip: Daniel…
…happiness around the world is incredibly unequal. Daniel Finkelstein‘s article also raised a broader question: We now understand that subjective well-being and G.D.P. are closely linked; is this good news…
…See L. David Roper, “Gun Deaths and Political Parties.” See also “Policies to Prevent Firearms Trafficking” by Jon Vernick and Daniel Webster, published in Injury Prevention in 2007. It remains…
…the charge. It is perhaps not surprising that someone would try to weave these two strands of literature together. Daniel Abraham‘s novelette The Cambist and Lord Iron: A Fairytale of…
…potatoes. If you are pro-Obama, you can perk up and say: This is what he means when he talks about getting rid of rotten government programs. (Hat tip: Daniel Goldin)…
…every episode by downing a tumbler of scotch? That on-screen booze cue is probably triggering you to end your day with one too, the BBC reports. (HT: Daniel Lippman) [%comments]…
…fear. That is the paradox at the heart of the financial crisis.” Daniel Gross sees the economy hunkering on a ledge, and he has one word of advice: “Jump!” [%comments]…
…in “The Study of Zoology” (1861): “The great tragedy of Science — the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.” Daniel asked: My roommate always uses the phrase…
An important new working paper by Chang-Tai Hsieh, Edward Miguel, Daniel Ortega, and Francisco Rodríguez examines whether Hugo Chavez opposition voters in Venezuela paid a price for their opposition. Between…