Great Economists
If I Lived in the Northeast
Monday, November 5th, 2007I would be at this event this weekend. Maybe, a video or transcript will be available.
Rabbits on the Cover…
Friday, November 2nd, 2007…caught my attention when I was looking through the Economics section at Barnes and Noble last May. The book was More Sex is Safer Sex, by Steven Landsburg. In the bookstore, I made it through the first chapter which uses economic logic to support the title’s provocative claim. Landsburg argues that when conservative people with […]
Why Your Meteorologist has a Shot at the Nobel in Economics
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007That might be a bit of a stretch, but meteorology and economics have a lot more in common then you might think. Both the youngest and oldest winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics were meteorologists before they were professional economists. Kenneth Arrow, the youngest to win, was a weather forecaster during his military service […]