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Assumptions are Key

An old economist joke. This version courtesy of this link: Three men went off on a sailboat together, a physicist, a chemist, and an economist. Unfortunately they ran into a storm and the boat was...

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History and Future of Economics

I’m going to post this link to a column by The New York Times‘ David Brooks – about the field of economics, so its points are not forgotten. It’s an important view of our discipline, and my colleague...

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‎”If loving econ is wrong, I don’t want to be right.”

…with apologies to Barbara Mandrell

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No Free Lunch

Today, in a setting entirely removed from my economics class, I used the phrase, “there’s no such thing as a free lunch.” Someone called me on it, and – full confession – I was sloppy in invoking it....

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