What Are My Chances of Making the Champions Tour (Or at Least Hitting the Golf Ball Really Far)?
Photo: Sands Beach Lanzarote Despite the fact that I am not very good at golf, my secret fantasy is to someday play on the Champions Tour, the professional golf tour for fifty-somethings. As I approach my 44th birthday, I realize that it is time to get serious in this endeavor. Read More »
Joseph Stiglitz and Anya Schiffrin on Spousonomics
Power econ couple Joseph Stiglitz and Anya Schiffrin weigh in on Spousonomics, the new book on the economic side of marriage by journalists?Paula Szuchman and Jenny Anderson. Here’s Schiffrin, who describes Stiglitz as “very romantic,” explaining one of his comparative advantages: “One of the concepts they devote a lot of time to is comparative advantage, Read More »
What’s the Twettiquette?
Listen Now The top Twitterers — Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber, Britney Spears and Barack Obama — have millions of followers. They also, graciously, follow hundreds of thousands right back. Not everyone is so kind. Different people have different strategies, of course. Conan O’Brien famously follows just one lucky soul. And Freakonomics followed no one on Read More »
IRS Math: $600 Million = $4 Billion
A few years back, we argued that Americans should want more IRS audits, not fewer. “Still, unless you are personally cheating by one-fifth or more, you should be mad at the I.R.S. — not because it’s too vigilant, but because it’s not nearly vigilant enough,” we wrote. “Why should you pay your fair share when the agency lets a few hundred billion dollars of other people’s money go uncollected every year?” Read More »
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. If you haven’t seen it yet, the movie features Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner, and was made by a dream team of documentary directors. Paste Magazine named it one of the 