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Is Voting Economically Rational?
Sun, 24 Aug 2008 21:02:00 -0500
One piece of human behavior that does not fit well into mainstream economics view of decision making is voting. Voting, on the surface, seems to be a wholly irrational...
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How do Investments, Gambles, Speculation and Insurance Differ?
Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:06:00 -0500
I was talking with a group of economists and finance professors lately and we were trying to determine what are the characteristics between investments, gambles, speculation and insurance. Using...
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More on the U.S. and Corporate Income Taxes
Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:19:00 -0500
Paul Krugman responds to the paper I linked to in Types of Taxes and Economic Growth by stating:
Now, the thing you have to realize about corporate taxes is that the...
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Types of Inflation and the Economy
Mon, 18 Aug 2008 10:09:00 -0500
Macleans magazine has a terrific article on accelerating inflation across the world. It picks up my worry that 2008 is starting to look a lot like the 1970s:
Does this...
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Types of Taxes and Economic Growth
Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:59:00 -0500
The OECD has recently come out with a new report that is an absolute gift for tax policy nerds like me. A PDF of the report Tax and Economic...
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Are These The Top 11 Unsolved Problems in Economics?
Thu, 14 Aug 2008 12:01:00 -0500
Wikipedia has a list of the top 11 unsolved problems in economics. I love the concept, but I am not a fan of the choices, as I explain in:
Are...
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Marginal Tax Rates and Anti-Poverty Programs
Thu, 14 Aug 2008 06:34:00 -0500
Tyler Cowen on a reported Obama tax-plan:
The key point is this: "Reducing a person’s tax credit as his income goes up also reduces his incentive to earn more income." ...
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Are Job Losses and New Business Creation Negatively Correlated?
Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:13:00 -0500
King Banaian (someone I need to link to more often) writes:
You'd never know it, but... there were 23,000 more firms established in the fourth quarter of 2007 than there were...
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Math Camp for Economics Graduate Students
Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:58:00 -0500
Eclectecon is not a fan of math camp for Ph.D. students and believes a camp in the 'economic way of thinking' would be more valuable:
The problem is that in graduate...
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The Fed Stands Pat on Interest Rates
Tue, 05 Aug 2008 14:23:00 -0500
The Federal Reserve is leaving interest rates unchanged... for now. But it is clear from the release that we should expect to see lower rates in the future:
Economic activity...
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