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Immigration Fantasies

Posted by Chris Martin at 6/8/2010 6:45 PM | Add Comment

The Rat Nails Freakonomics

Posted by Chris Martin at 3/28/2010 6:25 PM | Add Comment

Nobody Asked But

Posted by Chris Martin at 3/21/2010 9:32 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

The Labor Theory Of Taxation

Posted by Chris Martin at 3/14/2010 9:26 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Development For Dummies

Posted by Chris Martin at 1/10/2010 11:17 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Hamlet Without The Prince

Posted by Chris Martin at 12/21/2009 3:53 PM | Add Comment

Forge Ahead Brave Unpaid Workers

Posted by Chris Martin at 12/21/2009 2:15 PM | Add Comment

Price Cuts Won't Help

Posted by Chris Martin at 12/5/2009 3:27 PM | Add Comment

The Prices Of Money

Posted by Chris Martin at 12/5/2009 8:44 AM | Add Comment

Backup Singers

Posted by Chris Martin at 11/27/2009 9:26 AM | Add Comment

Dictatorship Of The Entrepreneur

Posted by Chris Martin at 11/23/2009 9:53 AM | Add Comment

Why We Do Not Need China

Posted by Chris Martin at 11/22/2009 12:38 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Liquidity Trap 101

Posted by Chris Martin at 11/21/2009 1:37 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

A Refresher Course On Labor Markets

Posted by Chris Martin at 11/16/2009 11:51 AM | Add Comment

Greg Mankiw Has Discovered The Plight Of The Poor

Posted by Chris Martin at 11/15/2009 1:52 PM | Add Comment

Learning To Be An Adult

Posted by Chris Martin at 11/8/2009 2:01 PM | Add Comment

Why We Do Not Expect Complete Economic Collapse

Posted by Chris Martin at 11/4/2009 1:34 PM | Add Comment

More On Torts

Posted by Chris Martin at 10/30/2009 6:56 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Efficient At What?

Posted by Chris Martin at 10/29/2009 2:32 PM | Add Comment

Wonks Anonymous Is Willing

Posted by Chris Martin at 10/28/2009 11:59 AM | Add Comment

Rationality

Posted by Chris Martin at 10/28/2009 10:16 AM | Add Comment

Market Power

Posted by Chris Martin at 10/27/2009 10:25 AM | Add Comment

History Matters

Posted by Chris Martin at 10/26/2009 3:46 PM | Add Comment

Torts And Courts

Posted by Chris Martin at 10/25/2009 1:09 PM | Add Comment

A Solution In Search Of A Problem

Posted by Chris Martin at 10/17/2009 2:31 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Prescription Drug Advertising

Posted by Chris Martin at 10/16/2009 7:46 PM | Add Comment

The Production Of Health

Posted by Chris Martin at 9/20/2009 12:00 PM | Add Comment

Radical Rationality

Posted by Chris Martin at 9/14/2009 12:24 PM | Add Comment

Fairness

Posted by Chris Martin at 9/5/2009 9:34 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Health Insurance Exchanges 2: Will Individual Mandates Help

Posted by Chris Martin at 8/19/2009 5:36 PM | Add Comment

Health Insurance Exchanges 1: A Free Market Fable

Posted by Chris Martin at 8/17/2009 11:51 AM | View Comments (5) | Add Comment

Free Trade

Posted by Chris Martin at 7/28/2009 7:24 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Incentives Should Motivate The People Who Actually Make The Choices

Posted by Chris Martin at 7/20/2009 10:11 AM | Add Comment

Skin In The Game

Posted by Chris Martin at 7/20/2009 8:35 AM | Add Comment

Giving Economics A Bad Name

Posted by Chris Martin at 7/16/2009 7:14 PM | Add Comment

A Jobless Recovery

Posted by Chris Martin at 7/16/2009 5:22 PM | Add Comment

"Free" Trade

Posted by Chris Martin at 7/14/2009 5:56 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

An Important Feminist Fallacy

Posted by Chris Martin at 7/6/2009 7:58 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Management

Posted by Chris Martin at 6/2/2009 7:05 PM | Add Comment

A New Argument for Privatization

Posted by Chris Martin at 5/22/2009 12:37 PM | Add Comment

The Folklore Of Capitalism

Posted by Chris Martin at 5/20/2009 7:20 PM | Add Comment

Does The Health Insurance Tax Exemption Favor The Rich?

Posted by Chris Martin at 5/15/2009 7:41 PM | Add Comment

Logical Nonsense

Posted by Chris Martin at 5/15/2009 6:52 PM | Add Comment

Tom Campbell Is worried About Inflation

Posted by Chris Martin at 4/27/2009 8:42 AM | Add Comment

Pain Is Good

Posted by Chris Martin at 4/26/2009 8:01 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Keep It Simple . . .

Posted by Chris Martin at 4/25/2009 9:46 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

The Sound Of Money

Posted by Chris Martin at 4/20/2009 9:00 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Major Structural Adjustments

Posted by Chris Martin at 4/12/2009 1:50 PM | Add Comment

Automatic (De)stabilizers 2.0

Posted by Chris Martin at 4/11/2009 1:05 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Public Internet

Posted by Chris Martin at 4/10/2009 6:41 PM | Add Comment

Wondering About Velocity

Posted by Chris Martin at 3/19/2009 5:45 PM | Add Comment

Fiscal Policy

Posted by Chris Martin at 3/13/2009 6:32 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

How Economics Has Destroyed Economics Departments

Posted by Chris Martin at 3/12/2009 7:05 PM | Add Comment

Did Something Happen?

Posted by Chris Martin at 3/11/2009 5:18 PM | Add Comment

Equal Time For Fools On The Left

Posted by Chris Martin at 3/5/2009 8:01 PM | Add Comment

Multipliers, Leakages And Black Holes

Posted by Chris Martin at 3/2/2009 1:01 PM | Add Comment

Automatic (De)stabilizers

Posted by Chris Martin at 2/12/2009 10:05 AM | Add Comment

Crowding Out

Posted by Chris Martin at 2/5/2009 8:44 PM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment

The Paradox Of Thrift

Posted by Chris Martin at 2/3/2009 8:25 PM | Add Comment

Smoot Hawley It Isn't

Posted by Chris Martin at 2/1/2009 9:54 AM | Add Comment

So What Is Your Problem Anyway?

Posted by Chris Martin at 1/29/2009 7:47 PM | Add Comment

Reputation

Posted by Chris Martin at 1/27/2009 3:46 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

What's Wrong with GDP?

Posted by Chris Martin at 1/21/2009 7:32 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Revising WWII

Posted by Chris Martin at 1/17/2009 6:14 PM | Add Comment

Depression Sermon

Posted by Chris Martin at 12/20/2008 6:51 PM | Add Comment

Economists Are Not Really That Good At Relationships

Posted by Chris Martin at 12/19/2008 8:04 PM | Add Comment

Dinosaurs

Posted by Chris Martin at 12/10/2008 1:23 PM | View Comments (4) | Add Comment

The Political Economy Of The Minimum Wage (Some Wonking Going On Here)

Posted by Chris Martin at 12/8/2008 9:15 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Why Price Cuts Won't Work

Posted by Chris Martin at 12/6/2008 2:26 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Yes We Can

Posted by Chris Martin at 12/5/2008 9:06 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Calling The Recession

Posted by Chris Martin at 12/5/2008 8:37 PM | Add Comment

Revising History

Posted by Chris Martin at 11/23/2008 3:43 PM | Add Comment

Is There Any Evidence For This?

Posted by Chris Martin at 11/22/2008 1:43 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

I Still Do Not Fully Understand Why It Happened

Posted by Chris Martin at 10/26/2008 6:32 AM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment

KISS

Posted by Chris Martin at 10/10/2008 8:17 PM | Add Comment

Insanity is . . . .

Posted by Chris Martin at 10/8/2008 6:50 PM | Add Comment

The American Disease

Posted by Chris Martin at 9/27/2008 4:04 PM | Add Comment

Reverse Auction

Posted by Chris Martin at 9/24/2008 6:56 PM | Add Comment

Auctions And Incentives

Posted by Chris Martin at 9/23/2008 6:25 PM | Add Comment

An Economics 101 Lecture Is Cast Upon The Ash Heap of History

Posted by Chris Martin at 9/5/2008 6:56 PM | Add Comment

More Insider Information

Posted by Chris Martin at 8/16/2008 4:01 PM | Add Comment

Money is Worthless

Posted by Chris Martin at 7/3/2008 5:41 PM | Add Comment
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