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Thursday, July 15, 2021

If You Haven't Switched to the New Conversable Economist Website Yet ...

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 If you have been checking this Conversable Economist website and wondering at the lack of recent posts, or if you had been signed up to rec...
Sunday, July 4, 2021

Learned Hand: "The Spirit of Liberty is the Spirit Which is Not Too Sure That It is Right"

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Learned Hand is often on the short list of greatest American judges who never made it to the US Supreme Court. In 1944, during World War II,...
Thursday, June 17, 2021

Last Post Here: Moving From Blogger to WordPress

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The Conversable Economist blog has been based on the Google Blogger platform for 10 years, since I started the blog in May 2011. However, th...
Wednesday, June 16, 2021

Interview: Amartya Sen on a Bicycle

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Christina Pazzanese interviews 87 year-old Amartya Sen ( Nobel '98 ) for the Harvard Gazette (June 3, 2021), with an emphasis on the lon...
Monday, June 14, 2021

From Pandemic to Digitalization to Productivity?

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We know that the pandemic caused people and firms to make much more widespread use of digital technologies: working from home, ordering on-l...
Friday, June 11, 2021

The Social Nature of Government Actions

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Economics famously begins with an idea of individuals pursuing their own interests, and then discusses both the positive and negative dynami...
Wednesday, June 9, 2021

How to Improve College Completion Rates: The Time Commitment Problem

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The US higher education system does an OK job of enrolling US high school students. About 70% of US high school graduates enroll in a two-ye...