The Princeton economist Alan Krueger — he led the Council of Economic Advisers under Obama, and his research has been featured several times on Freakonomics.com — is among a group of schola...
CHRISTIAN ZIMMERMAN of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis has created the ultimate game for econ nerds: the RePEc Fantasy Economic league . "The IDEAS fantasy league allows you to pretend yo...
https://freakonomics.com/2014/01/fantasy-football-for-econ-nerds/
In an article for The New York Times Magazine, CATHERINE RAMPELL explores the "wedding markup." While planning her own wedding, Rampell was surprised by the lack of transparency in the we...
https://freakonomics.com/2013/12/paying-more-for-the-white-dress/
From the (Saskatoon) Star-Phoenix : > When JASON CHILDS and his colleagues went about devising a new > course in economics at the University of Regina, they wanted to fin...
https://freakonomics.com/2013/05/dont-you-wish-you-thought-of-this-econ-professor-focuses-on-beer/
TYLER COWEN , who appears in these parts pretty regularly , writes in a Times column about the egalitarian core of the economics profession: > Economic analysis is itself value-free, but�...
https://freakonomics.com/2013/03/does-economics-have-an-egalitarian-core/
ELENA MALIK, communications chair of the 12th annual Carroll Round at Georgetown, writes to solicit applications for a worthwhile event: > The Carroll Round is an annual > undergraduat...
https://freakonomics.com/2013/02/calling-all-international-econ-undergrads/
With the Presidential debate finished, we are officially in the final lap of America's second-favorite spectator sport. (Yes, football is better than politics.) Of all the talking that BARACK OB...
I’ve just gotten back home after a terrific few days at the Brookings Panel on Economic Activity . It’s my favorite gabfest of the year, featuring economic analysis that is both serious re...
https://freakonomics.com/2012/09/research-from-my-favorite-economic-gabfest/
There’s a revolution underway in economics. It’s not due to the financial crisis, but rather something more mundane: Data, and computing power. At least that’s the claim that BETSEY STEVENS...
https://freakonomics.com/2012/08/the-economics-revolution-will-be-televised/
Over at the Big Think, eight young economists weigh in on the future of the profession, including our own JUSTIN WOLFERS . Here's Justin: > Specifically, the tools of economics will con...
https://freakonomics.com/2012/08/young-economists-on-the-future-of-economics/
A reader named MARK KOZEL writes to say: > I heard that Chicago will be pouring up to $14 million into police > overtime to prevent murder and violent crime. > > It go...
https://freakonomics.com/2012/07/question-of-the-day-should-we-just-let-murderers-do-their-thing/
I owe my favorite local bookstore, the Harvard Bookstore , for making another day for me. Wandering the tall, packed shelves on a warm and breezy evening, I ran across Schaum's Outline of Princip...
https://freakonomics.com/2012/05/solving-problems-in-the-real-world/
Last week, we solicited your questions for economist DARON ACEMOGLU and political scientist JIM ROBINSON , who just published a new book called Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosper...
https://freakonomics.com/2012/04/acemoglu-and-robinson-answer-your-questions/
When it comes to economic ideas, DARON ACEMOGLU never thinks small. Widely acknowledged as one of the most insightful economists alive, Daron seems to have brilliant things to say about any and ...
One of the great experiences of my stint in grad school was taking Advanced Macro classes from a fellow who at the time was regarded as a promising young professor at MIT -- DARON ACEMOGLU . I...
That's the (tenuous) claim of this Guardian article : > According to the Higher Education Funding Council for England > (HEFCE), there was a 10% increase in the number of st...
https://freakonomics.com/2011/12/is-the-big-bang-theory-producing-more-physics-majors/
Every year, I have my 500 intro students write vignettes like those in my little book, Economics Is Everywhere . This year, I got one which is the most clever and original of the roughly 2,000 su...
A new website , from the University of Chicago's Initiative on Global Markets (IGM), will "pose one question a week , and post answers from 40 senior professors at elite U.S. universities" in an...
https://freakonomics.com/2011/11/the-worlds-best-economics-department/
Way to scapegoat, Chronicle of Higher Education! An article about a Dutch psychologist accused of faking his research data wonders if academic fraudsters are responding to the wrong incentives...
https://freakonomics.com/2011/11/beware-this-blog-apparently-causes-academic-fraud/
We recently solicited your questions for Cornell economist ROBERT FRANK , whose new book, The Darwin Economy: Liberty, Competition, and the Common Good, argues (among other things) that competi...
https://freakonomics.com/2011/11/cornell-economist-robert-frank-answers-your-questions/