We Need Your Questions
In the comments below, please pose some questions that you would like to see answered in the paperback Q&A. They can concern anything you’d like: material in the book, modes of collaboration, the price of tea in China, material in the upcoming SuperFreakonomics, etc. We will probably use 8 or 10 or 15, but the more we have to choose from, the better off we’ll be. Read More »
Could Women Have Prevented a Financial Crisis?
The economist Anne Sibert hypothesizes that gender inequality in the finance industry is partly to blame for the financial crisis. She points to evidence that men are less risk-averse in financial decision-making, more overconfident, and perhaps susceptible to testosterone-fueled feedback loops in asset bubbles. Read More »
Sir Thomas More: Honorary Economist
My former student Emily Feldman informs me now that even Beccaria was a few hundred years too late. Back in 1516, Sir Thomas More already understood the concept of marginal deterrence. Read More »
Goat Hyperinflation, the Radio Play
When the Financial Times decided to run its first piece of short fiction, it chose “The Great Hargeisa Goat Bubble,” a story of economic intrigue in Africa by Julian Gough. The BBC has just turned the story into a delightful radio play, which can be found (for a limited time only!) here. Read More »
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