Duh, the answer is no. But Alex Tabarrok at marginal revolution, http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2009/08/inefficient-j...

No words needed; the numbers speak volumes. Thanks to Seth Sandronsky http://michaelperelman.wordpress.com/?attachment_id=1219

Your Majesty, We, the undersigned , noted with interest the letter to Your Majesty of 22nd July 2009 from the British Academy in which they ...

by the Sandwichman In 2001, the Government of Queensland further summarized Sandwichman's summary of Chapman's theory in its submiss...

"As I look back, it now seems that, with all the thought and work and good intentions, which we provided, we achieved absolutely nothin...

by the Sandwichman Here's a shorter summary of the Chapman model, originally published in "The 'lump-of-labor' case again...

by the Sandwichman Posner writes at the end of his column: This raises the question of the ethical responsibility of academic economists......

With hat tip to Mark Thoma , let me cite a couple of lines from Richard Posner . First: Romer answers the question in her title: "Abso...

How can people have been arrested for wearing anti-Bush T-shirts, while assault guns are ok?

The human rights leader and dissident of South Korea who was sentenced to death by the military dictatorship in 1980, spent many years in ja...

It is stable, easier to measure, hard to game "Of all the Accumulative Excizes, that of Harthmoney or Smoak-money seems the best; an...

In the famous words of Rahm Emanuel, the crisis is doing its work very well. One might have expected that people would be picking up the pi...

by Sydney J. Chapman (translated and condensed by the Sandwichman) Let me now summarize my main conclusions, and humanize them by restoring ...

In July, Chinese workers murdered beat an executive to death in protesting an immanent privatization of their steel mill. Canaves, Sky and J...

Paul Krugman makes an interesting observation about Germany’s fiscal rhetoric and policy: there’s a dissonance between what Germany says an...