→ Read moreAs a protest vote, Ron Paul seems fine, but hearing him or reading about him just makes me depressed. A good rule of thumb is not to get too excited about any candidate whose actual election would make the Dow lose thousands of points.
Category: USA
Econlinks for 13-12-’07
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An article by James Surowiecki on the subprime crisis and the “band-aid” Paulson (partial), J.P. Morgan-like, solution. This while Greenspan thinks the bubble should first break on its own (and certainly differs here from Martin Feldstein, who advocates for a fast, two-act intervention, see my previous post on that)
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Here’s a very interesting post of Andrew Gelman (based on this co-authored article of his) on whether the Democrats should move, as an electoral strategy, more to the left on the economic policy axis.
Econlinks for 06-12-’07
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very sad for this country’s people, but otherwise a very concrete first level econ lesson for everybody. One can only hope that any other government passes ‘introductory economics’ before experimenting with policies (samples of which, for the same country, were featuring on my blog a while ago as well)…
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female leaders and what comes and what doesn’t, with that (with further links to very interesting recent PDF articles within the text)
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from the ‘exotic entreneurship’ stories cycle, another example mentioned in Tyler Cowen’s very well written book, Discover Your Inner Economist (see also my previous example from there).
Econlinks for 01-11-’07
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The RePEc blog appeared recently. Looks interesting at first sight, though some ideas in very recent posts do not appear so sensible (such as this one).
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100% Gary Becker: an entry by Steven Levitt, with further links.
The electorate’s 4 boneheaded biases
Bryan Caplan at his best. The focus is on the USA, but the applicability is, unfortunately, universal.
PS. I am still reading Caplan’s “The Myth of the Rational Voter.
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