My Cartoon Economics publisher has a sister company called Worth that publishes textbooks by Krugman/Wells, Cowen/Tabarrok, Stone, etc... and they're offering to bundle the cartoon [...]
Party Ousts Chinese Regional Chief, Halting His Rise: "The news, announced Thursday morning in a brief dispatch by Xinhua, the state news agency, said that [...]
Democrats Warm to Obama as a Campaign Ally: This month, Mr. Obama’s pivot into an “all of the above” energy policy platform, one more or [...]
Why the Global Warming Skeptics Are Wrong, by William D. Nordhaus. See also the skeptics' Concerned Scientists Reply on Global Warming. Prizes With an Eye [...]
Foxconn Plans to Lift Pay Sharply at Factories in China. See also Pressure, Chinese and Foreign, Drives Changes at Foxconn Florida Set for New Cut [...]
14 Ways an Economist Says I Love You. I love the Pigou Club / Pick You Club one. Even Critics of Safety Net Increasingly Depend [...]
FiveBooks Interviews: Jonathan Gruber on Public Finance Steroids, baseball, and climate change: What do home runs and weather extremes have in common? The Devastating Costs [...]
NASA Finds 2011 Ninth-Warmest Year on Record: Nice video, plus Jim Hansen: Hansen said he expects record-breaking global average temperature in the next two to [...]
Amid Strikes, Nigeria Rolls Back Gasoline Price. See also A Country’s Frustration, Fueled Overnight. 13th Global Conference on Environmental Taxation. UBC, Sept 20-21, 2012. Climate [...]
What a mess. Sigh... The only really good news is that this site is pretty handy. Also, Kansas really has their act together with e-file. [...]