Sunday, October 18, 2009

Business Fends Off Tax Hit

From WSJ.

Obama's Report Card

By Alan Blinder.

SuperFreakonomics

The final chapter of Superfreakonomics casues a lot of debates recently.
Two stars in economics get involved: Krugman vs Levitt.

Monday, October 12, 2009

Economics Nobel 2009

Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson got the Nobel Prize of Economics in 2009.
Michael Spence had a good introduction.
To be honest, I never heard these two scholars. But when I check in Google Scholar, I understand why. Williamson's work got 18669 citations!!!

China’s Dollar Problem

By Kenneth Rogoff.

Sunday, October 4, 2009

Kocherlakota to be the Minneapolis Fed President

The new president is the same economist in my previous post.
Here is the WSJ article; here is Mankiw's comment.