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Posted in Academics, Economics, Education, Government, Policy, Politics on Nov 10th, 2009
Here’s an interesting question. Are Too Many Students Going to College? One could argue that the answer is obviously NO but is it? Several experts offer their answers to this question in the Chronicle of Higher Education.
I would argue that the answer is not as simple as yes or no. One should look at whether [...]
Posted in Academics, Current Affairs, Economics, Government, Law, Policy, Politics on Oct 26th, 2009
GMU Economics Professor, Don Boudreaux, provides us with a Manneian defense of insider trading in the October 24 edition of the Wall Street Journal.
I wrote my dissertation on insider trading and corporate governance. The literature, theoretical and empirical, on insider trading is just plain huge and with time I came to slightly change my opinion [...]
Posted in Current Affairs, Economics, Government, Policy, Politics, Research on Apr 17th, 2009
Sam Kazman from the Competitive Enterprise Institute has an interesting opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal today on the trade-offs between fuel efficiency and safety. In his piece, he discusses the results from a study produced by The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) showing that small cars such as the increasingly popular fuel-efficient gasoline [...]
Posted in Economics, Policy, Television on Nov 28th, 2008
I am a huge fan of the TV show CSI. This morning I was watching this week show, “Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda” and imagine my surprise when character Nick Stokes describes use Sam Peltzman’s works to explain why two high school students, while wearing their seatbelts, killed themselves when they crashed their car into a tree:
The [...]