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Climate

CoRev sends a note: Al Gore used the term again in his speech and testimony before Congress. But what is it we are saving the planet from? Jennifer Marohasy has put up an article titled: Denying the Climate Crisis: A Comment from Jim Peden.We have well over 200 comments and still no Climate Crisis can […]

Cactus updates story after McArdle critique

by cactus I have been somewhat out of contact, but while sitting in a lawn chair far from home I had a brief opportunity to read some of the comments to the post I put up courtesy of someone else’s internet access. (Also, Tom Bozzo’s excellent follow-up and Megan McArdle’s critique.) I’d like to provide […]

IOUSA

Economistmom says you gotta see this movie… A movie on economics? It must be a mystery or a thriller. Read up over at her site.

Other blogs than econ

Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry: A Closer Look carries articles of interest in the mental health field that are directly related to things we talk about at Angry Bear. Save the Rustbelt had a few links he has suggested as well…maybe we can make a referral list of interest. Tech Dirt went bonkers over cactus’s post […]

First lesson in econ for kids….scarcity

Wikipedia says: In economics, scarcity is the problem of infinite human needs and wants, in a world of finite resources. In other words, society does not have sufficient productive resources to fulfill those wants and needs. Alternatively, scarcity implies that not all of society’s goals can be pursued at the same time; trade-offs are made […]

Cuba’s reforms

One Salient Oversight sends this thought on gung-ho idealogists: From the department of not a communist country: Cuba is to put more state-controlled farm land into private hands, in a move to increase the island’s lagging food production. Private farmers who do well will be able to increase their holdings by up to 99 acres […]

All in the phrasing

The phrasing of these projections read just like Social Security crisis projections. I hope some of our friends see the irony of such claims about Social Security if they dislike these statements. The CBO has released a report detailing the effects of indexing the the AMT to inflation (i.e. “patching” it so that fewer households […]

What economics would you teach kids?

by jsalvati What economics would you teach kids? Rdan points to a ‘National Budget Simulation’ program that is apparently part of Massachusetts economics education for grades 4-12. I was surprised when I clicked on the link because the federal budget seems like a really strange place to start economics education. It seems important to start […]

Brad DeLong asks about the top ten econ blogs by net news wire

Brad DeLong asks: Here’s what NetNewsWire throws up as tops in attention in the “economics” category: Mark Thoma’s Economist’s View http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/ Alex Tabarrok and Tyler Cowen’s Marginal Revolution http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/ Justin Fox’s Curious Capitalist http://time-blog.com/curious_capitalist/ Barry Ritholtz’s The Big Picture http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/ James Hamilton’s and Menzie Chinn’s Econbrowser http://www.econbrowser.com/ Angry Bear http://angrybear.blogspot.com/ WSJ Real Time Economics http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/ […]

The housing crisis in pictures

Your house in your eyes… Your house in the buyer’s eyes… Your house in your lender’s eyes 2005 Your house in your lender’s eyes 2008… Your house shortly before foreclosure…