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- Austrian economics: recent work by Mario J. Rizzo
- Chandler, Alfred by Walter Friedman
- International coordination of regulation by David Lazer
- Matching models: empirics by Jeremy Fox
- Preindustrial inequality by Branko Milanovic
- Reparations by Kim Oosterlinck
- Wal-mart, Economics of by Emek Basker
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View Top 10- liquidity trap By Gauti B. Eggertsson
- statistical discrimination By Andrea Moro
- Arrow's theorem By Kenneth J. Arrow
- new institutional economics By L.J. Alston
- Arrow–Debreu model of general equilibrium By John Geanakoplos
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Economic Jolt: Job Openings and Labor Turnover January 2010
Today, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released their latest monthly read of job availability and turnover (JOLT) showing that, on a year-over-year basis, private non-farm job openings declined 2.88%, job hires declined 5.07%, job layoffs and discharges decreased...
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Why We Can't End Fannie and Freddie Today, Though I Wish I could
A reader wrote me this morning to ask why we can't just shut down Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac today. I share this frustration, but believe it would not be the best policy choice, as much as it would seem to be the more libertarian response.As I wrote in my Washington...
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Merkel, Papandreou Tickle the Euro
Investors nervous over fiscally stressed Greece took some solace in German Chancellor Angelas Merkels comments in a press conference after a meeting with Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou, with the euro ticking up against the dollar with each headline...
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