Peter Gordon's Blog

The many Club of Rome -type "doomsday" forecasts have not done well.  There have been the similar outcomes for the peak-this-or-th...

Bill Fischel has just posted his "Fiscal Zoning and Economists' Views of the Property Tax."   As usual, Fischel provides a gre...

Tyler Cowen linked to this Joe Satran post about LA vs NY food (also look at the video). LA vs NY stuff is always interesting, especially w...

Today's WSJ includes a (seemingly) whimsical piece, " If the World Were Run Like Airlines ... Sandwich Prices Would Spike at Peak...

Economist Robert Frank wrote in the NY Times "What Sweden Can Tell Us About Obamacare." One could add that the U.S. is not Swede...

World War II ended in the popular imagination when the troops came home to victory celebrations and reunions. There may have been a lot of t...

Urban planners generally love densities. Many call it "smart growth." Urban economists and urban geographers have embraced densit...

This morning's WSJ includes "Rail Lines Bring Housing Clashes ... Cities Take Steps to Promote Affordable Housing While Rents Ris...

"Eat your spinach," "Take your vitamins," "Live like a caveman."  There is lots of accumulating evidence on ho...

Most of life's goodies are rationed by price.  Economists like it that way.  Without price, we have to invent and defend alternate ratio...

In all of the debate over RR vs Krugman about debt, the bigger point about what and how we count seldom comes up.  But here it is.  Kudos t...

We chuckle about "bridges to nowhere" and "trains to nowhere."  For California's bullet train, there is even the occ...

Driving around LA, you cannot help noticing that there is something different.  The digital billboards have gone dark.  Here is the story. ...

This morning's LA Times editorializes about the "The 501(c)(4) fiasco ... the public needs to be assured that the IRS can enforce...

Paul Bloom had another wonderful essay in a recent New Yorker ( "The Baby in the Well : The case against empathy").  It is all ab...

A recent NY Times story called attention to research by Profs David Blanchflower and Andrew Oswald ( "Challenge to Dogma on Owning a H...

The Cincinnati IRS office is understaffed, overworked and underfunded. So says this in the NY Times . I suppose every agency of governmen...

Contracts beat conflicts.  And when it comes to stagnation or not, we ain't seen nothing yet. Here the NY Times reports on crowdfundin...

Today's WSJ includes " Beijing Puzzles Over Urban Growth ... Government Entertains Debate on How to Manage Population Gains as It...

Here is Wendell Cox's summary of 1920-2010 U.S. urbanization data. This stuff is indispensible because the Census' urbanized areas ...