Peter Gordon's Blog

We teach that money must be homogeneous, divisible and durable.  It must also be credible.  And politicized central banking can limit credib...

Mark Pennington and his thoughts (video here ) are the perfect antidote for the depressing nature of the previous post (the one just below).

Just when you thought that there must be some reason to reserve a warm spot for unions and their local government supporters, along comes th...

I am a great fan of Russ Roberts' econtalk (link at econtalk. com org; printed text of podcasts also posted). I actually look forward to...

Peggy Noonan writes about "What the World Sees in America ... It's not all something to be proud of. ... We have work to do at home...

Go from the mainland to Hong Kong and you go through immigration and exchange currencies.  This is part of the odd post-1997-fifty-year arra...

The China Daily 's April 12 opinion page included "Debate: Urban congestion."  One by Murad Qureshi, ("Charge cars out of...

From the Shanghai Sunday Daily (17 April; will not link):  "Shanghai's car license plate prices continued to rise in April after r...

Anyone trying to read my posts can tell that I am no match for the internet blockers. Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution recently mentione...

The case of modern China suggests that widespread corruption and strong economic growth can co-exist.  The caveat is that the combination is...

The April 10 China Daily includes this  report on the Beijing Metro.  Infrastructure planners everywhere dream of (i) accurately projecti...

The subject matter of Frank Dikotter's Mao's Great Famine is fair game to people I have spoken to in Beijing.  But Facebook is bloc...

When economists discovered "signaling", they were recognizing what the whole world already knew, that we spend a lot of time and e...

Today's LA Times has this story about the soon-to-open LA Expo light-rail line.  Officials expect 27,000 boardings by 2020 and have sp...

I enjoyed Claude Gruen's New Urban Development .  The author knows the economics and adds the lessons he absorbed as a long-time consult...

It's OK to "freeload" (steal) if it's for the environment. Today's WSJ includes "Freeloaders Unite to Fight Su...

We now have 2010 population tallies for all the major U.S. cities. Table 2 in this post lists Wendell Cox's itemization of major U.S. C...