Zackonomics

Anyone who is interested in American innovation should read  The Case Against Patents by Michael Boldrin and David Levine in the latest JEP...

This summer I am working for the North Carolina Justice Center, an non-profit group that advocates for low-income and moderate income workin...

The American Economic Institute has a free download of the Journal of Economic Perspectives Winter 2012 issue . There are multiple formats i...

This video explains the architectural history of Boston University. If you have ever been on campus, this is fascinating. Watch th...

I don't believe if I have ever seen Amazon book reviews that are this polarized! Amazon.com reviews The e-book The Rent is Too Da...

From a Bill James piece on Grantland . The difference between an average team and a championship team, in a season, is only about 150 runs...

Via the NY Times : In the 1970s, a professor of communication studies at Northwestern University named John McKnight popularized the t...

Mitt Romney's comments about the very poor have gotten a lot of attention over the last week. One of my professors, who blogs over at Ap...

This via Wikipedia today: SOPA and PIPA would put the burden on website owners to police user-contributed material and call for the unn...

A man is being sued for keeping Twitter followers that he attracted while working for a US mobile news website. How much are these online ...