Economic Surplus
The Harvard Crimson, Online Edition, June 02, 2008
By JEFFREY A. MIRON
[Why is economics so darn popular among Harvard students? It pays well to be an
econ grad and the subject can be useful in making sense of how the world works.]
The Hot Major For Undergrads Is Economics
By JESSICA E. VASCELLARO
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
July 5, 2005
[Yeay!]
June 4, 2003
The Dismal Science?
Hardly!
By ROBERT D. MCTEER, JR.
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
[Economics
helps you catch those proposing loony public policies.]
Economist Class
By Moisés Naím
Foreign Policy
March/April 2006
[Economics can be a lot more fruitful if economists listen to sociologists.]
July 5, 2001
Pursuing an American
Dream While Following the Koran
By SUSAN SACHS
THE NEW YORK TIMES
[Religious principles once determined the nature of an economic system.
Echoes of those influences persist.]
July 5, 2001
Loans, Interest Rates
and a Religious Principle
By SHIRA J. BOSS
THE NEW YORK TIMES
December 4, 2003
Economy Online:
Where to Read The Tea Leaves
By DAVID WESSEL
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Signifying
nothing?
Jan 29th 2004
The Economist
[Too many economists misuse
statistics]
July 11, 2003
Data in
Conflict: Why Economists Tend to Weep
By DANIEL ALTMAN
THE NEW YORK
TIMES
January 4, 2000
Storms That Surprised
Europe Show Forecast Limits
By SUZANNE DALEY with WILLIAM K. STEVENS
THE NEW YORK TIMES
[It's not just economists that find prediction difficult!]
May 26, 1999
Government Asks, How Big Is
the Digital Economy?
By JERI CLAUSING
THE NEW YORK TIMES
[Sometimes it might be hard to even measure the thing you are interested
in.]
September 21, 1999
U.S. Commerce Dept to
Collect Data on Online Sales
By REUTERS
THE NEW YORK TIMES
[Economists depend on governments for a lot of the data they use.]
The fruits of
fieldwork
Aug 15th 2002
The Economist
[Might visiting a pin
factory provide insights official statistics cannot?]
Try it and
see
Feb 28th 2002
The Economist
[In the social sciences, it is
often supposed, there can be no such thing as a controlled experiment. Think
again]
July 25, 2006
TV Review: ‘P.O.V.’ on PBS: How Missionaries Spread the Word, and U.S. Capitalism
By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN
The New York Times
[Christian missionaries supported the spread of capitalism in the Third World.
Why? Not necessarily because Christianity and capitalism were intrinsically
related. Perhaps the missionaries simply thought that they knew better than the
poor people they were preaching to and pushed capitalism just as they pushed
Christianity, even though they were there to do only the latter. The spread of
capitalism may have simply been an unintended byproduct of evangelical work.]
September 18, 2003
Genetic Basis to Fairness, Study Hints
By NICHOLAS WADE
The New York Times
[Even monkeys hate being treated unfairly. Economists
assume that people behave rationally. But sometimes our deep need for fair
treatment trumps the economists' narrow notions of what constitutes rational
behavior.]
March 4, 2003
Harvard Professor
Proposes Alternative Economics Class
By DAVID LEONHARDT
THE NEW YORK
TIMES
[Disagreements among economists often stem from the simplifying
assumptions they make in their theories.]
September 08, 2001
A
Civilized Society
By ANTHONY LEWIS
THE NEW YORK TIMES
May 19, 2001
If Richer Isn't
Happier, What Is?
By DAVID LEONHARDT
THE NEW YORK TIMES
What money can’t
buy
May 10th 2001
The Economist
[How education and friends
enrich us.]
Economists' blogs: The invisible hand on the keyboard
The Economist
Aug 3rd 2006
[Why do economists spend valuable time blogging? To set the dumbasses straight.]
Economists Join Blogging Frontier: Web Provides Visibility And Voice to Spread Ideas; A Federal Reserve Blogger
By AGNES T. CRANE
THE
WALL STREET JOURNAL
August 11, 2005
[A new way for economists to get their two cents into public debate.]
April 1, 2004
Economic Scene
By ALAN B. KRUEGER
THE NEW YORK TIMES
[How well informed is the American
public on economic issues? Not very.]
November 16, 2002
Teachers Wrap Lessons in
Fiction
By PATRICIA COHEN
THE NEW YORK TIMES
[Sometimes the best way to teach economics is through
novels and short stories.]
August 3, 2003
The
Probability That a Real-Estate Agent Is Cheating You (and Other Riddles of
Modern Life)
By STEPHEN J. DUBNER
THE NEW YORK TIMES
April 28, 2003
Economics
Medal Is Given To Levitt for Crime Studies
By JON E. HILSENRATH
THE
WALL STREET JOURNAL
April 26, 2003
Provocative
Economist at Chicago Awarded Prize
By DANIEL ALTMAN
THE NEW YORK
TIMES
April 27, 2001
Social
Issues Meet Market Models In the Work of the New Economists
By JON E.
HILSENRATH
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
June 24, 2001
What the
Market Will Bear
By JAMES
RYERSON
The New York Times
[Richard Posner takes the law and economics movement a
step farther and seeks "to unify the many scattered territories of the law by
reformulating legal concepts in the language and equations of the marketplace".
The influence of economics on the law has become such that "most good law
schools in the country now employ at least one economist, and policy reforms in
fields as diverse as antitrust law, environmental regulation and criminal
sentencing bear the distinctive imprint of economic analysis."]