Sumner on Allison Arnold Kling By Arnold Kling, Dec 18 2009 SHARE POST: I should have outsourced my comments on John Allison’s interview to Scott Sumner.
Dec 18 2009 Economics of Crime Signaling and Jury Duty David Henderson A junior colleague of mine, Noah Myung, who holds a Ph.D. in economics from Cal Tech, told me the following hilarious story. He was a math/econ major at UCLA and had just completed a course on game theory, taught by David Levine, in the winter of 2003. He got a notice requiring him to show up for jury duty. He showe... 14 Read More
Dec 18 2009 EconLog Inflating Away the Debt? Arnold Kling Joshua Aizenman and Nancy Marion write, The estimated impact of inflation on today's debt/GDP ratio is larger than in the mid-1970s but not as large as in the mid-1940s. If inflation were 5% higher, the debt/GDP ratio would be about 20% lower, a debt ratio of 43.4% instead of 53.8%. ...Today, a much greater share of ... 14 Read More
Dec 18 2009 Finance: stocks, options, etc. Sumner on Allison Arnold Kling I should have outsourced my comments on John Allison's interview to Scott Sumner. 0 Read More