Peter Gordon's Blog

Today's WSJ included a special section on "The Top Ten Trends in Ten Industries". Some are familiar. Yet, picking and/or ranki...

Ami Eden's NYT op-ed, Playing the Holocaust Card , will stir controversy. He makes the important point that it is still important to me...

Here is MarginalRevolution on Robert Schiller's new edition of Irrational Exuberance and house price bubbles. Some writers have neve...

Larry Summers suggested that innate sex differences as an explanation of natural science career success differences might be an hypothesis t...

Immigration is a tough issue because open borders run up against security concerns but controls empower all sorts of politicized gatekeepers...

The "Summary of Travel Trends: 2001 National Household Travel Survey" (Dec, 2004) is full of data and findings to occupy urban re...

Google finds 32,500 sites that talk about urban sprawl and obesity. I imagine that many of them include the currently favored causality stor...

"The suburbs" is a huge topic -- and also a cliche magnet. Many books, movies, editorials, conversations -- and policy discussio...

George W. Bush has touched the "third rail" of American politics and the big debate is here. Whatever one may think of George W., ...

The best ideas come from the bottom and percolate up. It's an old concept; cultures that make room for bottom-up innovation can be expec...

Many thanks to Brad Hill for pointing me to the FT's "Into the heart of suburbia." Bush and the Republicans, as everyone kno...

Computers and modern electronics are marvels but less so in the hands of government agencies. The federal government has been a serial offen...

A growing mountain of evidence and argument addresses our other-regarding side. (Some even deride the homo economicus straw man.) A fun r...

Reading the Thomases (DiLorenzo and Sowell) is always great fun; they are prolific, they are clear, they are smart and they are very angry. ...

"Campaign finance reform" never does "get the money out of politics." Yet, the faith that "good government" is...

Help is on the way. But we can always do better. The LA Times and many others focus on government emergency grants. The currently pledged $...

Was it UC's Clark Kerr who memorably mentioned that the alumni want college sports (successes), the undergrads want sex and the faculty ...

Convergence of communications technologies and how it will upset "monopolies" (imagined and otherwise) has been moving forward for...

The current issue of The Public Interest includes an exchange on "Low-Wage America: Two Views" (between Robert F. Ferguson and Ma...

Dan Henninger cites a useful stat in his Friday WSJ column. "The Red Cross estimates that for the past ten years when a natural disast...