Bubbles for Fama Robin Greenwood, Andrei Shleifer, Yang You NBER Working Paper No. 23191Issued in February 2017NBER Program(s): AP CF IFM We evaluate Eugene Fama’s claim that ... Read More »
Understanding the long-run effects of Africa’s slave trades Nathan Nunn 27 February 2017 – http://voxeu.org/ Evidence suggests that Africa’s slave trades played an important ... Read More »
Inequality and economics: Tony Atkinson’s enduring lessons Andrea Brandolini 27 February 2017 – http://voxeu.org/ Sir Tony Atkinson, the doyen of inequality economics, passed ... Read More »
New eBook | Quo Vadis? Identity, policy and the future of the European Union Thorsten Beck, Geoffrey Underhill 01 March 2017 – http://voxeu.org The ... Read More »
Time to Restart That Old Capitalism Death WatchFeb 27, 2017 – https://www.bloomberg.comBy Justin Fox
Should economists be more concerned about Artificial Intelligence?Mauricio Armellini and Tim Pike 01 March 2017 – https://bankunderground.co.uk/
Why are peer reviews private? By Joshua Gans on Mar 1, 2017 – http://www.digitopoly.org/
Farewell to Kenneth Arrow, a Gentle Genius of Economics My mother’s brother, the Nobel economist Kenneth Arrow, died this week at the age of ... Read More »
Timothy TaylorWasteful Health Care Spending Thursday, February 23, 2017 – http://conversableeconomist.blogspot.hu/