Peter Gordon's Blog

Urban economists and urban planners have a renewed interest in the ideas of Jane Jacobs.  Richard Florida's work on "creative citi...

" Cities in Western Europe and the U.S.: Do policy differnces matter?" by Wendell Cox and myself is now available in the most rec...

Penguin publishers sent me Joe and Blake Kernan's Your Teacher Said What?! and it was engaging enough for me to put down what I had bee...

Businesses and products fail all the time.  Good thing.  The error-correcting market is all we have.  But when it comes to green and electri...

The Urban Land Insitute had commissioned a report by Prof Chris Nelson re The New California Dream:  How Demographic and Economic Trends Sha...

Russ Roberts talks to Deron Acemoglu about Why Nations Fail (which I have not yet read; I believe it just became available).  The book...

I greatly enjoyed Charles Murray's Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010 .  He finds that many us live in "bubbles...

You would think that trade benefits all sides.  But here is a report from the WSJ that could have been written by any protectionist politic...

Yesterday's LA Times reported that Santa Monica Community College had adopted two-tiered pricing. Faced with deep funding cuts and str...

Donald Boudreaux and Walter Williams write about the minimum wage in today's WSJ ( "How to Keep More Kids on the Streets ... New ...

Robert Frank applies his Darwin Economy argument to the problem of high college tuition rates ( "The Prestige Chase Is Raising College...

Today's LA Times includes one more effort to make the California bullet train proposal look like a serious idea. "A collision of v...

Quite a few people have now chimed in on how much we will miss James Q. Wilson's voice of reason.  Among other things, he well understoo...

"GM to Idle Volt Output as Sales Slow" should not surprise anyone.  But it seemingly does.  Congress and much of the public (as w...

Paul Solman of the Jim Lehrer PBS News Hour reported "Benefit Corporations Aim to Make a Profit -- and a Positive Impact" on last...

This morning's LA Times includes another story of bus service cut-backs necessitated by the Los Angeles MTA's diversion of funds to...

The Flynn effect is supposedly real  It says we are getting smarter.  Steven Pinker credits it with some of the decline in violence and na...

The 84th Academy Awards ceremony this Sunday will be held at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood -- which is no longer the Kodak Theater becaus...

This morning's LA Times reports that "More Americans are waiting longer to replace their vehicles" .  I think that most car o...

Economics has been called the "queen of the social sciences".  This can be bad news as well as good news.  On the bad news side, ...