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Friday, February 9, 2018

Olympic Economics

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Before settling into my sofa for a couple of weeks of watching the athletes slip and slide through Winter Olympics from PyeongChang, I need...
Thursday, February 8, 2018

What Charter Schools Can Teach the Rest of K-12 Education

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If you're interested in how K-12 schools might improve their performance, charter schools can be viewed as a laboratory experiment. Sara...
Wednesday, February 7, 2018

US History and the Path to European Integration

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The early history of the United States involves a time when mobility of labor, goods, and capital between the 13 states was often costly and...
Tuesday, February 6, 2018

Behind the Declining Labor Share of Income

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Total income earned can be divided into what is earned by labor in wages, salaries, and benefits, and what is earned by capital in profits a...
Saturday, February 3, 2018

Could Driverless Trucks Create More Trucking Jobs? Uber Says "Maybe"

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Could driverless trucks create more trucking jobs? It sounds logically impossible. But remember that automatic teller machines did not reduc...
Friday, February 2, 2018

Kill the Zombie Firms

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I first ran into the idea of zombie firms--and the need to kill them--back in the late 1980s, when the US savings and loan industry was melt...
Thursday, February 1, 2018

Is the Euro Out of Danger?

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The euro was officially adopted in 1999, although it took a few more years to be phased in for everyday use. Over the years, my feelings abo...