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Wednesday, October 14, 2020

Are We Staying at Home By Choice or Because of Government Rules?

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If the government removed all rules about social distancing, limited capacity, and mask-wearing in restaurants, stores, workplaces, entertai...
Tuesday, October 13, 2020

Politics and Attitudes Toward Vaccination

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For many people, their willing to be vaccinated apparently varies with whether they are a supporter of the president. For example, here are ...
Monday, October 12, 2020

A Nobel Prize for Auction Theory: Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson

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Auctions are widely used throughout the economy. The big auction houses like Christie's and Sotheby's are well-known for selling fam...
Friday, October 9, 2020

Snapshots of Capital Punishment Trends

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Back in 1972, the US Supreme Court outlawed the capital publishment statutes in all 50 states by a 5-4 decision in the case of Furman v. Geo...
Thursday, October 8, 2020

The "No Brown M&Ms" Story: Contract Theory at Work

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 Eddie van Halen, the rock guitar legend for the eponymous band Van Halen, died a few days ago. I suspect that many readers already know the...

Yes, The Other Drivers Went Crazy

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The relatively few times I was out on the road back in April and May, right after COVID-19 had started changing all our lives, it seemed to ...
Wednesday, October 7, 2020

The Education of Angus Deaton

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Gordon Rausser and David Zilberman have "A Conversation with Angus Deaton" in the Annual Review of Resource Economics (2020, 12: ...