Economix: Human Capital Follows the Thermometer
Edward L. Glaeser is an economics professor at Harvard and the author of “Triumph of the City.” Over the last decade, population growth in the fifth of American counties where January temperature...
View ArticleEconomix: Keynesians Miss the Point, for Now
Casey B. Mulligan is an economics professor at the University of Chicago. Our labor market has long-term problems that are not addressed by Keynesian economic theory. New Keynesian economics is built...
View ArticleEconomix: A History of College Grade Inflation
We’ve written before about some of the work of Stuart Rojstaczer and Christopher Healy, grade inflation chroniclers extraordinaire. They have put together a new, comprehensive study of college grading...
View ArticleEconomix: Why Hasn’t Employment of the Elderly Fallen?
Casey B. Mulligan is an economics professor at the University of Chicago. While employment rates have fallen sharply among the general population, they have not done so among the elderly. This result...
View ArticleEconomix Blog: The Role of Austerity
DAVID LEONHARDT Thoughts on the economic scene. The chart here offers one of the better recent snapshots of the American economy that you will find. The blue line shows the rate at which the government...
View ArticleEconomix Blog: Wealth, Taxes and Public Opinion
CATHERINE RAMPELL Dollars to doughnuts. Last week I wrote about a new Pew Research Center report on the ailing middle class. Today, Pew has come out with a comparable report about the wealthy and how...
View ArticleEconomix Blog: Comparing the Job Losses in Financial Crises
CATHERINE RAMPELL Dollars to doughnuts. For a while I was regularly updating a chart each month showing how far employment plummeted in the latest recession and how little ground has been recovered...
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