Peter Gordon's Blog

Markets recycle resources. Thi s story mentions the conversion of parts of Detroit to farmland. Growing cities reallocate peripheral land ...

In today's NY Times , William Falk ( "Should Old Articles Be Forgot" ) itemizes what he sees as major news from 2009. He dwell...

Immigrants enrich this country in many ways. Today's NY Times includes "Taking Hold in Silicon Valley, a Ping-Pong Boom." Th...

The Independent Review (Winter 2010, apparently not yet online) includes "Lost Trust: The Real Cause of the Financial Meltdown" b...

The Copenhagen confab on climate change may have "failed", and we can only speculate on what "success" would have meant....

Here is Reason's report on the nation's public roads and highways. California ranks 48th and I am not surprised. I was in Mexico la...

New York is the subway capital of the U.S., but in the 21st century, it's hard to sustain subways even there. Here is the story. But l...

This is excellent.

Of all the Paul Samuelson obits and reflections that I have seen, I liked this one by David Henderson best. A remarkbale man, economist, bo...

"The coming energy abundance" (H/T Manny Klausner) is much more plausible than "peak oil" . The case for policy makers...

Bob Nelson has written a fair bit about religion and here he chimes in on the problem revealed by "climategate". Neither "s...

It's not beating a dead horse to expand on yesterday's post re Prof. Frank's huge "if". The horse is not dead and the...

In today's NY Times , Economist Robert Frank writes "How to Run Up A Deficit, Without Fear ...Taking on debt can be a good thing, ...

Cities compete on many margins, but who would have thought of tours of the city's ganglands? Today's LA Times reports "The ...

Reason's Martin Bailey occasionally writes about "Markets, Not Mandates" . In the January 2010 issue (not the one linked; th...

We are often told that Oregonians are more enlightened than the rest of us. So the report that "Poll finds Tigard residents prefer wid...

I often cite Cox and Alm's Myths of the Rich and Poor when getting students to think about the poverty stats and the general hand-wring...

Cap and trade = carbon tax plus corporate welfare. That's apparently a Greg Mankiw theorem . The corollary is that carbon taxes are the ...

Dan Klein points me to this essay by Michael Marlow. Bias among researchers is what we prefer not to think about, but it is probably inesc...

Religion gets a bad rap whenever true believer zealots are prompted to use it to violate any or all of the 10 commandments. This is a very ...