Photo: Alejandro Forero Cuervo Two years ago we ran a quorum debating the pros and cons of decriminalizing marijuana. Since then, a largely theoretical debate has moved quite substantially toward…
…uncover such ecological invalidity. His name was Amartya Sen, and he introduced himself as a philosopher, not as an economist. Furthermore, he look physically similar to the first economist (though…
…the Yankees and wear a different uniform in 2011. If that happens, fans of the Yankees will get to experience what fans of many other teams have seen for years….
Over the past several weeks, we’ve hosted discussions on obesity, street charity, real estate, and environmental conservation. Here now is a quorum that lets people relive the just-about-gone summer. The…
…senior staff economist for tax policy in President Reagan‘s Council of Economic Advisers, and is co-author of Taxing Ourselves: A Citizen’s Guide to the Debate Over Taxes. “One out-of-the-box idea…
…is it? We’ve blogged more than a few times about the spike in American obesity. These posts have included: economists’ attempts to identify the causes of this spike; a post…
…topic. How is the financial crisis affecting the clean tech sector? John Whitehead: During the summer of 2008, we were oh-so-achingly close to what economists call the Hotelling switch point….
Are you more likely to experience post-traumatic stress or post-traumatic growth? How does belief in the afterlife affect how you view death? And why did Angela hike a deadly gorge…
…be that medicating simply is the sort of task where what would guide us better is more refined knowledge about diagnosis, drug mechanism of action, side effects, brain pathways, genetics,…
…out further. We’ve convened a Freakonomics Quorum on the topic, soliciting replies from a few folks with expertise in the realm. Thanks to all of them for participating. Douglas…
…our earlier Times columns are now available for free here.) In the meantime, we thought it would be a good idea to host a Freakonomics Quorum in which we asked…
…what will it look like in five or ten years? That’s the question we put to five smart people in our latest Freakonomics Quorum. I found their answers to be…
…past; today we present a quorum with a very narrow focus: what are some good ideas to cut gun deaths? Let’s put aside for a moment the standard discussions about…
…be thinking about this? We gathered a quorum of smart thinkers on this subject — James Howard Kunstler, Edward Glaeser, Robert Bruegmann, Dolores Hayden, and Alan Berube — and posed…
…that made me want to post a quorum on the subject. So we’ve gathered up some willing and able candidates — Dr. Stuart Apfel, Zola P. Horovitz, Dr. Harlan Krumholz,…
Iran’s citizens take to the streets en masse after a disputed election. Gay men in Salt Lake City hold a kissing protest. Members of the Westboro Baptist Church voice their…
The notion of micropayments — a pay-per-click/download web model — is hardly a new one. But as a business model it hasn’t exactly caught fire, or even generated more than…
…rating agencies, forecasters, bank managers, etc. Raghuram Rajan is a Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago and the former Chief Economist at the IMF. He is the author…
Photo: Ben Sutherland This year’s midterm elections promise to be a bit more eventful than usual, with predictions of seismic change in Congress and in many statehouses, most of it…
…subscriptions did get properly redirected last week, you will probably be unhappy about losing the full feed. 3. The partial feed that the Times been offering since the move was…
…about global warming? Here are their responses. Feel free to share yours as well. Yoram Bauman Yoram Bauman, an environmental economist at the University of Washington who has performed at…
Also: what is the most significant choice you will ever make?…
…wonder more than 140 national education, civil rights, religious, disability, parenting, and civic groups have called for its comprehensive overhaul. Having long tracked the misuse and abuse of such tests,…
…created to update the Seven Wonders of the World. Voters can choose between 21 buildings and monuments, with the winners announced in an Official Declaration Ceremony in Lisbon on 07/07/07….
This kid better have a great life, or he’s got a lot to answer for: a boy named Jack Falkner was born in Chippewa Falls, Wisc., on Saturday, 7/7/07, and…
Even if you don’t care one bit — and this probably describes the vast majority of Americans — you have probably heard by now that a Great Format War has…
Bruce Silverglade at Gleason’s Gym, Brooklyn, NY Sports fan or not, chances are you’ve heard of Sugar Ray Robinson, George Foreman, and Rocky Marciano. But unless you follow boxing, you…
It’s a widely held perception that the professional athletes who constitute Major League Baseball and the National Football League have different levels of power — i.e., players have more juice…
Safety is an all-too-familiar issue in the construction industry — workers in Las Vegas are striking over it; in April, New York’s building commissioner resigned in light of more than…
