“Think of the first rule of economics: if somebody has money in his pocket, somebody else is trying to take it out.” (via Steve Randy Waldman’s Twitter feed)

This is the third post of  a series of posts highlighting parts of the paper by David Zetland Wageningen UR – Environmental Economics and Natural Resources Group; PERC – Property and Environment Research Center Economists Owe Ecology an Apology March 9, 2013 Part 2 from the series Economists owe ecology an apology Part 3 below: […]

Re-posted from Economist’s View, Mark Thoma points to Arnold Kling ‘Is the Demand for Skill Falling?’ who points to this this NBER paper: Is the Demand for Skill Falling?, by Arnold Kling: Paul Beaudry, David A. Green, and Benjamin M. Sand have a paper with an intriguing abstract, which says in part, Many researchers have […]

Tuition is only $1747 a year.  But then comes the other part…austerity budgets and as state support dwindles, one aspect is that creative cost shifting flourishes.  The tripling of student debt since 2004 are discussed here. And graduation rates remain flat. From the chart provided at Umass Amherst bursar’s office per semester costs are shown, excluding room and […]