Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Hannah Green interviews Josh Oppenheim Asia Times Online :: Skeletons in Indonesia's closet

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Asia Times Online :: Skeletons in Indonesia's closet INTERVIEW Skeletons in Indonesia's closet By Hannah Green  LOS ANGELES -...
Saturday, July 27, 2013

How I wish I could get an unbundled subscription to the Wall Street Journal

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I cannot do my job without reading it, and its reporters are still excellent, even in the Murdoch era.  And in general, I have learned to i...
Friday, July 26, 2013

Hannah Green writes on the problem of how victims of rape who are college students are treated

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In Open Magazine (an Indian newsweekly), she writes: Angie Epifano always wears the same necklace. It is simple—a round blue stone set ...
Thursday, July 25, 2013

Ten Favorite Metro Systems--A Personal View (reposted from Forbes blog).

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10) New York.  Butt ugly, smells bad, too many rats, but gets you a whole lot of places at reasonable speeds. 9)  Washington , DC.  Very...
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Who Moves? Not Old People? (reposted from my Forbes blog)

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A meme is out there that baby boomers, having raised their children, are ready to downsize.  (See  here ) .  Some scholars, such as Arthu...
Thursday, July 18, 2013

House Prices in Southern California need to Rest now (reposted from Forbes).

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From my Forbes blog : DataQuick today reported  that house prices in Southern California have risen 28 percent from the last year.  A y...
Saturday, June 29, 2013

The Internet is Truly Awesome (Leonard Bernstein Mahler edition).

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David Denby wrote a nice piece in the New Yorker a little over a year ago about this ten most "perfect" orchestra recordings of a...
Tuesday, June 25, 2013

John Roberts is supposed to be a smart man.

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But he makes a specious argument.  He says that because in the presence of Voting Rights Acts, there is no disparity in voter turn-out, the...
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Sunday, June 23, 2013

Are models that assume linear utility useful?

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I just saw a paper on how the desire of households to match with particular houses could explain housing market dynamics--in particular why...
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Thursday, June 20, 2013

If in 1987 you bought the average house in the average place...

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…you have about broken even relative to the consumer price index.  The Case-Shiller National Index  for March 1987 was 62.03; for March 2...
Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Could someone explain the market failure that protecting car dealerships solves?

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The Wall Street Journal has a good story today about how car dealerships are (successfully) lobbying legislatures to ban Tesla Motors from...
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Wednesday, May 15, 2013

A metaphor for why Goodness of Fit tests are, well, not very good.

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I am proud to say I learned my econometric from Art Goldberger, who had little use for R-squared . Anyway, a smart friend of mine (who wo...
Sunday, May 05, 2013

A painting by Morgan Green

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Thursday, April 18, 2013

Reposting from my Forbes blog: the debate on Debt and GDP

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My two cents: Within the past day or so, economics conversations have been all about  Rogoff and Reinhart  and their critics,  Herndon,...
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Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Please follow me to Forbes

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I am at http://www.forbes.com/sites/richardgreen/2013/03/13/california-has-a-shortage-of-rental-housing/.
Sunday, March 10, 2013

Why not worry about the deficit right now?

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Because if I did my math right, Federal Government interest payments are at a long-term low relative to GDP. [Update, after looking more c...
Monday, March 04, 2013

The American People agree with George Orwell

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This video presents what the American people consider to be the ideal wealth distribution.  At 2:47, the narrator notes that under this id...
Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Good for Greg Mankiw...

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..for supporting marriage equality .
Monday, February 25, 2013

Why is the luxury housing market recovering so well?

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The fashionable thing to say is because of foreign money.  I suspect the actual reason is that the one percent have gotten 122 percent of t...
Saturday, February 23, 2013

The future of efficient transportation

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Might look like this: I heard a lecture from Alain Bertaud on how networked, scheduled transportation is not a good solution for many...
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