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…and put them in hotels and drive them around and feed them? We aren’t complaining (last night was the first night in ages that one of my kids didn’t pounce…
…and put them in hotels and drive them around and feed them? We aren’t complaining (last night was the first night in ages that one of my kids didn’t pounce…
…country and put them in hotels and drive them around and feed them? We aren’t complaining (last night was the first night in ages that one of my kids didn’t…
…may complain to each other occasionally about feeling compelled to feed the blog beast, the laws of economics tell me that we must enjoy it on some level or we…
…we gave of the World Cup might not have been the best one, even though the age effect is very strong in the national youth squads that feed many World…
America’s universities are producing an awful lot of economists these days. Too many? Well, if Levitt is successful in getting rid of tenure (don’t bet on it), there will certainly…
…Let me explain: The first graph I looked at showed the number of daily unique visitors (excluding feed readers) on Monday and Tuesday of this week. It was on Tuesday…
…That means environmentalists and policy makers don’t have to worry about whether jatropha diverts resources away from crops that could be used to feed people. Barta’s article also includes some…
A British economist and journalist, Philippe Legrain has served as special adviser to the director-general of the World Trade Organization and worked as the trade and economics correspondent for the…
…thing about the 1964 election was Johnson’s treatment of the press. He remarked to an aide that “reporters are puppets,” and had his people feed them misleading information about the…
…to feed themselves. But violent crime fell during the rainy years, at the same time property crimes were on the rise. Why should that be? Because, the economists contend, rye…
…what would become the Cold War. Certainly Wilson’s refusals to commit American troops to the anti-Bolshevik resistance, and the eventual dispatch of Herbert Hoover‘s food to feed the famine-ravaged stretches…
…in many schools. My prediction: it will not be long before a bunch of NYC high school students are emailing the Freakonomics blog to complain about our partial RSS feed….
…— a man wakes up in the morning in most poor places, and his first problem is, “What am I going to eat?” He has to feed his family. Lots…
…could comment on the extent to which economists have contributed to overwork by misinformed policy prescriptions? A: Economists tend to believe that economic efficiency and economic growth are the two…
…of sanitation are calculated is a roadblock to progress; how so? A: They’re not calculated and that’s the problem. Health economists — particularly Guy Hutton at the World Bank and…
…is a very cheap way to feed a lot of people. 4) Roasting a turkey gives the host a way to keep busy and avoid the once-a-year relatives who have…
…phone-betting hubs, says McClelland, because phone betting presents better economics: Since [phone hubs] don’t have to maintain a grandstand or feed horses, they can kick money back to their customers….
Sudhir Venkatesh‘s book “Gang Leader for a Day,” originally published last January, is now out in paperback. You can read reviews of it here, here, and here; and The Economist…
…a dozen major newspapers from around the world side by side right here on your browser, thanks to a feed from the Newseum, arranged by the design company Rayogram. [%comments]…
…did he have at the show? “To eat,” he said, adding that in the past ten minutes, he’d packed away six months’ worth of shrimp and sushi. The feeding frenzy…
…expected to contribute to their society. In fact, dominant male fairy wrens may punish delinquent citizens for up to 26 hours and vampire bats actually regurgitate meals to feed hungry…
…this blog has about 17,000 Twitter followers as of this writing, even though our Tweets are nothing more than an abbreviated RSS feed. Stone has helped create other social media…
…sales. The picture in Africa could not be more different. Approximately two-thirds of Africa’s population labors on small, dusty farms, frequently failing to produce enough food to feed their families….
Making fun of earmarked Congressional spending is easy, feel-good entertainment. In this regard Sen. John McCain‘s Twitter feed, in which he reels off outrageous examples of pork-barrel spending (we especially…
…has the following item: “He [Kipling] sees clearly that men can only be highly civilized while other men, inevitably less civilized, are there to guard and feed them.” George Orwell,…
…I’d call a five-minute disparity strikingly small. We can dig deeper using the empirical economist’s best friend, a mathematical technique called regression. Regression is a statistical technique that helps to…
…feed, listen at the Times‘s podcast page or on Amazon.com. Friday’s blog installment was a Super Bowl edition, focusing on hard hits in the NFL. Coming soon on the blog:…
…noted, probably correctly, that “it would be better for the retailers of the city to buy off all the apple sellers.” Feed and clothe the poor vendors, he added, “but…
…1 podcast for the better part of two weeks; or subscribe to the RSS feed here.) In the meantime, here’s a preview — in which we visit Ira Glass, the…
…contributing factor, “given that some bee colonies have recovered once their bee boxes were irradiated.” It briefly mentions a range of other factors, including the impact of feed supplements made…