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Our Daily Bleg: What’s the Best From 2008?

…an even wider appeal. Each year in December the Yale Book of Quotations names the most notable quotations of the year — from politics, entertainment, the arts, sports, religion, or…







Suze Orman Answers Your Money Questions

…fund. You simply pick the portfolio that dovetails with when you think you might retire. (These funds will have a target retirement year as part of their names.) The portfolio…



Tomorrow’s Economists Today

…the book that lists the popularity of names and accompanying average education level of the mother. Like many suburban kids, they are overscheduled. True to the stereotype of Korean-American mothers,…




The Cost of Fearing Strangers

What do Bruce Pardo and Atif Irfan have in common? In case you’re not familiar with their names, let me rephrase: What do the white guy who dressed up as…




Toronto's Punny Business

As much as we love aptonyms on this blog, we also appreciate a cleverly named store (not, however, all those horrible names for hair salons — Hair Port, Shear Elegance,…




Let's Talk About Tax Cheating: A Freakonomics Quorum

…attracting improper behavior, often via false taxpayer names and ID numbers. Education credits can be overstated when the taxpayer self-reports qualifying expenditures for supplies and travel. Oversight of energy credits…



Reading About Kids and Economics

…the Fairy Godmother discovered that their vaults were not full of gold, but ordinary straw. All seemed lost until Santa Claus and his helpers, men with implausible fairytale names such…



The Domain-Name Shakedown

…confident somebody is going to write a book with the title [—–]-nomics. I have over 150 domain names within my own industry which is manufacturing so it does not make…




Don't Fear the Reefer

…own lines of pot (think Marlboro Reefer or even Budweiser Bud)? Or would it take a while for them to feel comfortable associating their brand names with something formerly illegal?…



Rubbish With Your Name On It

| A shop owner in England is tackling the litter problem in her neighborhood by marking sweets wrappers and drink bottles with the names of the children buying them. This…



A Name is Just a Dai Hao

…himself. Another of Hsu’s friends, who goes by dozens of names depending on the situation, tells him “a name is just a dai hao.” In other words, a code name,…



The Cost of Opposing Hugo Chavez

…surveys, the authors determine that opposition voters experienced a 5 percent drop in earnings and a 1.5 percent drop in employment rates after their names were released. The authors also…



The Downside of Sexy Science

A paper by a team of scientists and analysts maps out how fields and subdisciplines emerge in 21st-century science. One of the main findings: much like trendy baby names boom…





Observational Detectives

…Lisa blew my mind when she pointed out how directly the House character was based on Sherlock Holmes: both have names that sound like a domicile (Holmes/House); both are addicted…



Our Daily Bleg: Name That Team!

…policy debate too. Anyway, we all pride ourselves on having amusing or clever team names. This year, with the current economic crisis, I thought a team name related to economics…



Grazing the Non-Commons

…us uses it up. The local paper is trying to solve the shortage by publishing the names of the biggest residential users and shaming them. I doubt this will help….



Teach Your Teachers Well

…by academic co-authors, consider this interesting footnote in Jackson and Bruegmann’s paper: “Note: In the interest of fairness, the ordering of the authors’ names was determined by a coin flip.”…




The Macro Wars … Or Not

…(The headline-grabbing names, such as Krugman, Cochrane, Stiglitz, DeLong, Prescott, or Lucas, are all of an earlier vintage.) If Narayana is right, then perhaps the future is brighter than the…



"The Briefest Abstract Award" Goes to …

…(42) or the authors’ names (46)? I believe this is what is meant by “asked and answered.” Here’s a PDF of an earlier draft, albeit with a slightly longer abstract….