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It’s Safer Doing Economics From the Armchair

For Thanksgiving I was in Rochester, and went to see Steve Landsburg give a lecture. (It was great, by the way. I’m sure the students didn’t realize how much better his lecture on two-part pricing was than the typical one.) But beforehand I tried his hobby (click on the thumbnails for better photos): So now, […]

Steve Landsburg Passes the Torch

Steve has a very touching and interesting tribute to Don (now Deirdre) McCloskey, who taught him price theory at Chicago. Steve explains that it was McCloskey who was responsible for drawing him away from pure math and into economics, with an almost religious fervor. (That’s my term, but you’ll see that Steve uses language like […]

Murphy vs. Landsburg on the Pope

I’m not even Catholic anymore. (Check the comments.)

Google and Game Theory

Steve Landsburg has a really neat series of posts with a game theoretic brain teaser that has an unintentional flaw. If you have the time, I encourage you to not “cheat” by reading ahead; instead try to solve them in order, just by reading Steve’s posts and not the comments: First, second, and third. Then, […]

Steve Landsburg Experiences the Ultimate Male Blogger’s Nightmare

In the comments to this post, both his wife *and* mom showed up to zing him. We all need to be extra nice to Steve this week.

Potpourri

==> The econosphere is hotly debating this new paper, which uses a clever “natural experiment” method to conclude that if the government passes a law making something more expensive, then (a) the thing becomes more expensive but (b) people buy less of it. ==> In terms not just of shocking police behavior but then the […]

American People Don’t Know Basic Economics Because Economists Have Misled Them

[UPDATE: As Keshav and David pointed out in the comments, I made a bonehead mistake in the original draft of this post, which ironically strengthens my underlying point rather than hurting it. I’ve corrected the mistake below, and in a follow-up post I’ll deal with this issue more directly.] Steve Landsburg recently wrote a post […]

Landsburg Agrees That Paul Krugman (Often) Is an Anti-Economist

Since I’m still getting ready to hammer him for his defense of Gruber post, I want to make sure to heap kudos on Steve’s most recent post on Krugman, regarding Krugman’s post defending Obama’s immigration announcement. Some key excerpts: Dammit, I hate this stuff. Krugman says (and I agree with him) that it’s cruel to […]