Peter Gordon's Blog

It is almost conventional wisdom these days that "people are moving back to the cities." Well, not exactly. Wendell Cox has assem...

In today's WSJ , MIT's Richard S. Lindzen writes that "There is No 'Consensus' on Global Warming ... So what, then, is...

In no particular order, here is my updated list of favorites from Netflix. There is no accounting for taste and when I see my friends' l...

Today's NY Times Magazine includes "If It's Good For Philip Morris, Can It Be Good For Public Health?" It appears that b...

There was a global cooling consensus in the 1970s and there is now a global warming consensus. Available data for the last 12,000 years show...

Americans like to hopscotch around European capitals to sample cozy city centers. That part of the continent is now our Disneyland-for-adul...

I thought that I had reason to worry when the NY Times Magazine 's "Money Issue" arrived this morning, including Niall Ferguso...

In the June 19 Forbes , Frederic Sautet of GMU's Mercatus Center writes "Don't Tempt Me ... States and cities lure businesses w...

As I write this, financial markets are in a deep funck because "stagflationary" (the worst kind) of expectations are in the air. H...

What causes countries to prosper and grow? What causes cities to prosper and grow? With respect to nations, we know that better institution...

It's easy to be a lazy blogger when stuff like this comes along. From today's NYT : "Delusions of the Rich and Rent-Controlled...

The front-page of today's WSJ features "City Lite ... Fake Towns Rise, Offering Urban Life, Without the Grit ... Mix of Office, Ho...

The May 27 WSJ included "Funds That Are Managed by Computers". "It's not surprising that technology plays a major role i...

New Urbanists' claims that sprawl causes obesity were suspect the moment they were first uttered. Recent research by Siim Soot and his...

Whole Foods is big and getting bigger. WalMart will start selling organic food. Where will it all end? Most economists are happy to have co...

Fifty-five million Americans now live in private communities and most of them have chosen to trade off property protections gained for prope...

David Warsh's Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations has received a lot of favorable comment -- as it should. It is beautifully and clearl...

Jim Lewis recounts the "Battle for Biloxi: The New Urbanists thought they had just the plan for remaking the Mississippi Gulf Coast ci...

Robin Lindsey surveys what economists have to say about road pricing in the latest Econ Journal Watch . Yes, most economists think that rat...

Most U.S. urban planning and policy curricula include the field of "community economic development". This refers to strategies and...