by Robert Waldmann (Dan here…lightly edited for readability and Robert’s sense of humor)) House effects Noah Smith and Chris House are engaged in a stimulating blogospheric discussion. I am tempted…

…of its profits are in this country. This is pretty funny math, if you like dark humor. Especially since Humira, AbbVie’s biggest-selling drug by far, was developed in the United…

…thus Coasian payments help redress a pre-existing injustice. Perhaps this was a clumsy attempt at humor, but as economic analysis it’s pretty flimsy. Average height-related income differentials are very small,…

Dan here…hang on to this definition for examples. It is also full of Robert’s somewhat unique humor. Lifted from Robert Waldmann’s Stochastic Thoughts. Phrase of the Day: Fournier Transform Fournier…

…by Secular Humanism? (Or as secular humanists humor ourselves “by reason”). On what grounds do we push back on Daesh because of its particular reading of the Koran and the…

…implication is that somebody JAMMED the dog THROUGH that fence. Then again people who know tell me I have little sense of humor. Little John April 1, 2015 10:21 am…

…into a new Union Army that must be committed to preserving the values, the sense of humor, the sense of cohesion that have long been a part of our American…

…it has at least 4 different meanings (counting neither the 18th century meaning “clarified” and the one I just invoked in an attempt at humor). Kruman notes two I’m pretty…

…how that represent any kind of an improvement. So I can’t be against DSGE on principle. I have a sense of humor, but I am going to suppress it and…

…to the point that it lost whatever ironic humor it had some time ago. But then irony is a Gen-X thing, not a millennial or boomer thing. However, taxing them…