Peter Gordon's Blog

For all we know, most people at some time think about their legacy. Will I be remembered? By whom? For how long? For what?  This thinking ha...

Timothy Taylor rightly takes on stagnationist Larry Summers. Summers points to a slow U.S. economy and suggests more public sector infrastr...

In 2012, The Freeman featured discussions of Seasteading . "What would it take to get you to move to a seastead?" I liked this re...

Tyler Cowen points us to a study which claims that LA is "on the cusp" of becoming a major walkable city.  Two points should be ...

I decided to link to Megan McArdle's discussion of the "lost" Lois Lerner emails (H/T Craig Newamark) because: 1. The epis...

Suggesting the end of history or progress or innovation or growth or anything is a huge stretch. But stagnation theses in economics are no...

The political Left feasts on self-anointed moral superiority. "Inequality" is on the lips of pundits and politicians all over the ...

We can date "modern" economics to the work of Adam Smith and note that for most of its time "the firm" was treated as a ...

Here are two views from the urban economics literature that might be seen as dueling views. “ … a central paradox of our times is that...

Here is Nate Baum-Snow discussing why cities will become more dense. Here are data indicating more cell phones than people in the world --...

I still get various requests from journal editors to referee papers on "sprawl." Readers of this blog know that I am not fon...