Economists are frequently turning to Twitter, Google and other online data sources to analyze the markets.In an economy less focused on manufacturing and more on information and connections, it …
What the Internet Can Do For Pennies
I enjoy listening to NPR's Planet Money. They make economic theory manageable to the average listener, through stories on everything from violins to professional sports. I'm frequently …
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Is Leisure vs. Labor Irrelevant?
This New Yorker piece brings up a worthy dilemma of our age. The focus of this story is on Keynes's prediction that future generations will have so much idle time that it may even be bad for society. …
The Skills Gap: It’s Mutual
This WP piece highlights another interesting debate in the college vs. manufacturing job debate (also discussed here yesterday). The conventional wisdom is that there are all these manufacturing …
Hard Work U
This WSJ piece offers a compelling compromise to the raging college vs. workforce debate. While I am convinced there is a bubble in higher education, I think some critics of a college education go …
Expensive Health Care: Is it Really the Transaction Costs?
This recent Fiscal Times article got me thinking about how to apply the lessons of e-commerce to health care. The article stated at first that individual patient habits were to blame for expensive …
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