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Words of Wisdom from Williamson's Banquet Speech
| Peter Klein | The transcript is here. My favorite bit, which can be read as a response to the econ-bashers: Being hard-headed means that we aspire to tell it like it is — be it good news or ba… more →
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Words of Wisdom from Williamson's Banquet Speech
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Peter Klein wrote 1 week ago: | Peter Klein | The transcript is here. My favorite bit, which can be read as a response to the econ … more →
Boeing and the Higgs Effect
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Peter Klein wrote 1 week ago: | Peter Klein | In their calls for greatly expanding the Federal Reserve System’s and Treasury … more →
The WSJ on Vertical Integration
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Peter Klein wrote 2 weeks ago: | Peter Klein | It’s not as bad as this 2006 piece from Slate, but Monday’s WSJ front-pa … more →
Modest, Slow, Molecular, Definitive
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Peter Klein wrote 3 weeks ago: | Peter Klein | In an oft-cited passage from The Mechanisms of Governance (1996), Williamson describ … more →
The Igon Value of Cognitive Dissonance
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Dick Langlois wrote 1 month ago: | Dick Langlois | Some of you may have seen Steven Pinker’s review of Malcolm Gladwell’s … more →
Keynesian Anti-Economics
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Peter Klein wrote 1 month ago: | Peter Klein | A reader objected to my recent portrayal of Keynes as a crank, as a man who never re … more →
The Amazing Krugman
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Peter Klein wrote 1 month ago: | Peter Klein | The man indeed has a unique talent, as described here by the witty and clever Steve … more →
Fed Independence and Comparative Institutional Analysis
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Peter Klein wrote 1 month ago: | Peter Klein | I’ve written before on Fed “independence” and why I don’t su … more →
No Required Ethics Course at Chicago-Booth
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Peter Klein wrote 1 month ago: | Peter Klein | Bucking the trend, the Chicago-Booth MBA program will not offer required courses in … more →
The Hodgson Petition
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Peter Klein wrote 1 month ago: | Peter Klein | Several friends and colleagues urged me to sign Geoff Hodgson’s petition on th … more →
QWERTY in the Long Run
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Dick Langlois wrote 2 months ago: | Dick Langlois | The new issue of Industrial and Corporate Change has an article by Andreas Reinsta … more →
Famous Misquotes
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Peter Klein wrote 3 months ago: | Peter Klein | What are your favorite famous misquotes in social science? E.g., everybody knows Lor … more →
Climate Change Economics
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glennmmacdonald wrote 3 months ago: | Glenn MacDonald | Some thoughts about how carbon emissions will evolve. Assume carbon emissions ca … more →
Two Quotations on Profits
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Peter Klein wrote 3 months ago: | Peter Klein | Henry Hazlitt, from Economics in One Lesson: In a free economy, in which wages, cost … more →
Not Even the Slightest Soupçon of Correlation
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Dick Langlois wrote 3 months ago: | Dick Langlois | Another interesting article from the Journal of Wine Economics: The lead article i … more →
The Pretense of Bernanke's Knowledge
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Peter Klein wrote 3 months ago: | Peter Klein | Chairman Bernanke, in his own words: July 2005: “[U]nquestionably, housing pri … more →
What Does the Rule of Law Variable Measure?
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Peter Klein wrote 4 months ago: | Peter Klein | Bill Easterly poses this question, referring to his NYU colleague Kevin Davis’ … more →
Greif's Response to Rowley
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Peter Klein wrote 4 months ago: | Peter Klein | Avner Greif has written a response to Charles Rowley’s odd claim that Greif … more →
Heterogeneity and Health Care
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Peter Klein wrote 4 months ago: | Peter Klein | Further to Russ’s post: One of the most frustrating aspects of the discussion … more →
