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Economics of Education
Dec 25 2006
The most vociferous bearer of anti-foreign bias that I know is also a life-long car afficionado. (He and his buddies call themselves "car guys.") A couple of days ago he was telling me about the low level of quality control for U.S. cars into the 1960's. New cars were routinely sold with dents, scratches, and fair...
Dec 24 2006
For me, one of the funnest parts of teaching undergraduate labor is when I lecture on why "the standard history of labor is wrong." I begin with a quick summary of what I take the standard view to be: Most history books tell a story something like this: 1. In the days before the minimum wage, unions, etc., life was ...
Dec 24 2006
Mankiw's got a good econo-parody here. I wrote this and this back in grad school, for a Christmas skit that never was.
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