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When dumb bank regulation is a good idea

with Gary S. Beckervia Reuters
Thursday, April 30, 2009

Justin Fox has a great post up on models of regulation, linking a comment from Gary Becker (”When you give a lot of discretion to regulators, they don’t use the tools that are given to them”) to a theory from Matt Yglesias that when it comes to regulation, it’s important not to try to be particularly clever or sophisticated...

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Stanford faces significant financial challenges, president says in 'State of the University'

with John Shoven, John B. Taylorvia San Jose Mercury News
Thursday, April 30, 2009

Stanford University will need to significantly restructure its budget to weather an unprecedented dip in the school endowment, college President John Hennessy said in his State of the University address Thursday...

Analysis and Commentary

Will Bad Science Policy Sink Recovery?

by Henry I. Millervia Investor's Business Daily
Thursday, April 30, 2009

President Obama tried recently to reassure a nation jittery about the economy: "(W)ith every test, each generation has found the capacity to not only endure, but to prosper — to discover great opportunity in the midst of great crisis."...

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Delaware, California new prime targets for asbestos plaintiffs

with Richard A. Epsteinvia Madison County Record (IL)
Thursday, April 30, 2009

During a recent interview with a reporter, Lester Brickman recalled an old television western from days gone by called "Have Gun-Will Travel."...

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The Aussie Way with John Howard: Chapter 4 of 5

by Peter M. Robinsonvia Uncommon Knowledge
Thursday, April 30, 2009

John Howard discusses the origins and implications of the global financial crisis...

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Gifted in Nepal

by Russ Robertsvia Cafe Hayek
Wednesday, April 29, 2009

In this post, I quoted Robert Frank: For example, as a Peace Corps volunteer in Nepal long ago, I hired a cook who had no formal education but was spectacularly intelligent and resourceful...

Analysis and Commentary

Europe's future depends on voters. But not on the European elections

by Timothy Garton Ashvia Guardian (UK)
Wednesday, April 29, 2009

The other day I heard a pro-European British politician say the most extraordinary thing...

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Count On This: Two Entertaining Economics Books

with Niall Fergusonvia NPR
Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Like many people, I'm being kept awake at night by a financial crisis that I don't even understand...

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Klein on The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Episode 4--A Discussion of Part III

by Russ Robertsvia EconTalk
Wednesday, April 29, 2009

This is the fourth podcast in the EconTalk Book Club discussion of The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith...

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Nothing New Under the Sun

by Victor Davis Hansonvia Works and Days
Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Rather than nitpick about Obama’s envisioned brave new world, I think it wiser to see it in the larger context of age-old divides over the nature of Western democratic and liberal society...

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