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Karl Muth argues that the story of beef is an interesting one because it involves the ultimate trade-off in agrarian societies. To understand why, we have to go back to the…
A life-changing experience for me was taking an advanced applied microeconomics course as a masters student with Profs. Gary Becker, Kevin Murphy, and Ted Snyder. My research…
Economists have made the news this week. From Eugene Fama’s important work at the University of Chicago finally being rewarded with a Nobel Prize to the rise of Janet Yellen…
After a decade of nuclear talks, a deal between Iran and the International Community may finally be in sight. However, what if the compromise found at the negotiation table falls…
I write this in London, but this blog post covers a criticism intertwined with the recent history of the NRA, or National Rifle Association, a membership advocacy group in the…
Karl Muth offers his opinion on the growing debate around income inequality.
There’s a big to-do about income inequality in the U.S. and U.K.
Let’s establish a few things up-front…
For those who tuned in for yet another TRIPS rant about how people are dying from AIDS in Africa because of American patent laws, you can tune out now. That’s not the point…
Alex Cobham and Andy Sumner bring us up to date on the techie-but-important debate over how to measure inequality.
It’s about six months since we triggered a good wonk-tastic…
For those who have not recently read Shelley’s “The Revolt of Islam,” a poem written in 1817, I recommend it. I first read the poem, composed in a dozen cantos,…
Cornelius Adebahr sounds a note of caution for those hoping to use history as analogy in the case of Syria.
Let’s start with the banalities: Syria is not Iraq, Obama is not…