Managerial Econ

From Craig Newmark

This is a fast moving train wreck . Hugo Chávez, the country’s leftist president, has been on a nationalisation spree, seizing everything f...

Marginal Revolution blogs that President Obama's health care bill gives employers incentives to offer healthcare plans that are designe...

Nice post on the Organization and Markets blog noting a recent study that looks at how professor research productivity responds to extrinsi...

...by taxing his health care benefits. Colleague Larry van Horn eats poorly and doesn't exercise  to illustrate the moral hazard assoc...

J ohn Stossel gives us  another lesson  that you won't learn in high school: When the Pilgrims first settled the Plymouth Colony, they...

The proposal from the Chairman of the deficit reduction commission has the benefit of broadening the tax base, and reducing the marginal rat...

...by putting another one on top of it.  Twelve minute interview of Richard Epstein, who helped me come out of the libertarian closet at the...

Vice President Gore now thinks corn ethanol subsidies were a mistake : "First generation ethanol I think was a mistake. The energy con...

The Economist seems to think so: A one-paragraph explanation of the Austrian theory of business cycles would run as follows. Interest rates...