Showing posts with label Mark Thoma. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mark Thoma. Show all posts
Monday, July 29, 2013

Paging Mark P

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Mark Thoma posted this today . I think the whole idea of charter schools has some merit as a means of educational experimentation.  But if...
Monday, July 22, 2013

Urban Sprawl

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Mark Thoma's site has a link to Paul Krugman's discussion of the association between sprawl and low social mobility .  It appears ...
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Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Intellectual Property

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Mark Thoma points us towards a potentially really important finding : By linking a number of different datasets that had not previously ...
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Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Dual Class shares and free markets

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Andrew Gelman weighs in on dual class shares :  Now I’m just confused here. Who’s supposed to be “concerned” here? As a New Yorker subs...
Sunday, December 11, 2011

Question about Airlines

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Mark Thoma tweets: MarkThoma Mark Thoma Just once, I'd like to be able to get on the plane at the scheduled time, and make all my connec...
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Sunday, November 20, 2011

Statements that I violently disagree with

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From Tyler Cowen via Scott Sumner : Congratulations to Matt Yglesias on his new gig. He’s arguably the best progressive economist in the b...
Monday, October 17, 2011

Unemployment

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Mark Thoma is strident : The use of the term "slackers" is telling. You see, there's plenty of work for the industrious, our u...
Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Easily worth a thousand words... Maybe even fifteen hundred

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From Mark Thoma .
Wednesday, February 9, 2011

What do you do when things are tight?

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I was reading two different pieces today and I thought that they had a really interesting link between the two of them. From Dana Goldstein ...
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Friday, January 7, 2011

Defining Denominators

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Via Mark Thoma , I discovered this very interesting article looking at group of gross domestic product by working age population (WAP): When...
Saturday, January 1, 2011

Unemployment

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A new post by Mark Thoma fits in, I think, with recent thoughts about minimum wage. It is true that, as the time of unemployment increases...
Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Health Care

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We haven't talked as much about Health Care lately, because I have been slammed by my first year of teaching. But I did want to highlig...
Monday, October 11, 2010

The indispensable Professor Thoma

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Having spent a lot of time recently on the issue of compensation, this post by Mark Thoma caught my eye: Greg Mankiw complains that if taxe...
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Monday, June 28, 2010

It is possible to have a simple question in a complex field

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Kartik Athreya packs a lot of stupid into one PDF and though Mark Thoma does a good job of unpacking most of it, there are, inevitably, sta...
Monday, May 31, 2010

Robert Samuelson would not make a good statistician

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Robert Samuelson is taking considerable heat for this column in the Washington Post complaining about the way we measure poverty. Dean Bak...
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Tuesday, May 4, 2010

"Markets Are Not Magic"

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An old post from Mark Thoma that's worth another look.
Monday, March 15, 2010

"The economics profession is in crisis"

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This may sound strange but all this soul searching by economists like Mark Thoma makes me think that the field might be on the verge of exte...