Thursday, October 30, 2014

How people who can't do math get shafted.

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I have a car (an Accord, if you must know) that is 17 months old.  When I bought the car, the dealer offered me a car loan at 0 percent int...
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Sunday, September 28, 2014

How the price of a Martini reveals the property value of a city

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A Hendricks Gibson is basically a commodity (although the bartender does need to know what she is doing). But a good Gibson at the Starli...
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Saturday, September 27, 2014

How Piketty's care with language can improve economics

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When I was a freshman in college, I read Fogel and Engerman's Time on the Cross .  I loathed the book, because it implicitly endorsed t...
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Monday, December 23, 2013

Hannah Harris Green in The Guardian on Race, Crime and Television

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She writes : The First 48 is an A&E true crime reality show that documents real police investigations for the first 48 hours after ...
Thursday, October 24, 2013

UW-La Crosse Chancellor Joe Gow has issues with sifting and winnowing.

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A geography professor at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse,  Rachel Slocum, made the mildly controversial point in an email to her stud...
Wednesday, October 02, 2013

The Windy City and The Foggy City

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Hannah Green writes: ERNEST HEMINGWAY famously wrote of Paris, “If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then where...
Tuesday, October 01, 2013

Dr Patricia Harris on Healthcare Exchanges

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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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