Economic Logic

The United Kingdom has often been at the forefront of privatization, and it has taken another step in that direction. Private businesses can...

Economists often puzzle about why people, in particular poor people, buy so many lottery tickets. Think about it, we generally consider that...

Markets and politicians panic about the huge write-offs major financial institutions have to make in the face of this subprime mortgage mess...

The post on the congestion charge in London has been translated to Italian and posted on Internazionale.it's InterBlog .

Checking your email for the latest NEP reports regularly yields some nice gems. I have been wondering lately why households hold so much cr...

The RePEc blog recently had a post describing some of the roadblocks it faces in exctracting references for its citations analysis. I found...

Many bloggers are contributing to the debate on the fiscal stimulus the Bush administration is trying to push through. Let me add my grain o...

Now that soon to be PhDs are flying across the continents to impress audiences and will in a few weeks ponder which offers to accept, let me...

We already knew that it pays to be beautiful , so it should not be a surprise that a study by Das and DeLoach finds that it pays to spend t...

I just do not understand why so many people insist on emailing in a Microsoft Word document a text that could have just as well be cut-and-p...

In some sense, I offer on this blog reviews on event or policy from an economic perspective, or plainly reviews of economic articles or book...

After his shock therapy policy went awry in Russia, Jeff Sachs' new credo is to solve World poverty, and specifically African poverty, b...

The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis just published a fascinating book about depressions. It covers not just the US Great Depressions bu...

Found on the Borjas blog this disturbing article about the use of research assistant in academia, and in particular in Economics and Law a...

RePEc just released a list of the most cited recent articles in Economics (or at least from its data), recent being defined as published in...