Reviving Economics

Dedicated to dismantling the Ivory Tower and attempting, in some small way, to help revive the social science of economics.

Monday, November 30, 2009

The Deadweight Loss of Christmas

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....in case you didn't already think some economists were insane or out of touch or missing something fundamental (or fundamentally huma...
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Homegrown Evidence of the Truths of Minsky's ideas

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As discussed before on this blog, long-ignored economist Hyman Minsky discussed cycles of booms and bust as a natural tendency of free marke...
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Tuesday, November 24, 2009

China's Currency Manipulation

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From Prof. Becker: "The US has little to complain if China wants to hold such high levels of low interest-bearing US government assets ...
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009

No Surprise, Change Happens Sloooowwwww in Indiana

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Every time revenue forecasts came out from the State over the past year +, they have been grossly over-estimated . Now, I can understand th...
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Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Dumbest call of the week: Belichick or economists

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A lot of economists seem to make this aggregation of data mistake and of glorifying results of studies without reading about the underlying...
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Sunday, November 15, 2009

This Just In: Incentives Work

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33949428/ns/business-real_estate/
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Thursday, November 12, 2009

The Conservative Idiot

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As someone who teaches, and someone who likes economics, and as someone that is gay, I find this more than slightly disturbing: http://bertc...
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Garth A Brazelton
Indianapolis, IN
I work for the Indiana Economic Development Corporation as the Director of Operations and Business Systems, and I teach macroeconomics at Indiana University (Indianapolis). Previously, I was an Economist at the US DOT in Cambridge, MA. This blog does not represent the opinions of any of these organizations.
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