Economics

Warren Buffett and the Business of Life: Part 2 of 7

Alice Schroeder | Posted 11.05.2009 | Books


Alice Schroeder

Buffett would always love reading newspapers, but his investing was tightly focused on simple businesses that were as close to immortal as possible. Newspapers no longer qualified.

When Political Ideas Have Costs

Scott de Marchi | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics


Scott de Marchi

Talk and inaction are relatively cheap for US legislators, since their own health care plan will remain the same whether or not legislation passes. Political ideas need to have a cost.

Warren Buffett and the Business of Life: Part 1 of 7

Alice Schroeder | Posted 10.29.2009 | Business


Alice Schroeder

Warren Buffett is never more himself than when he is given the chance to invest in something he wants at a price of his choosing.

What is Work? America Re-Imagined at Pop Tech (Day 1)

Sharon Glassman | Posted 10.23.2009 | Local


Sharon Glassman

While many of us believe that more money is a motivator, it's actually a stressor that inhibits performance.

Ralph Anspach: Economist Spent Decades Fighting Monopoly Game's Corporate Owner

Wall Street Journal | MARY PILON | Posted 10.20.2009 | Home


Ralph Anspach, an 83-year-old economics professor, spent decades locked in a real-life battle with Monopoly and its corporate owners. The campaign den...

Why Ostrom's Nobel Is Even More Shocking Than Obama's

Randall Amster | Posted 10.14.2009 | Business


Randall Amster

Make no mistake, despite the somewhat tame Nobel committee description, Ostrom's body of work is inherently radical, demonstrably anti-corporate, and implicitly socialistic.

Time for Economic Polluters to Pay Up? Tobin or not Tobin...

Sony Kapoor | Posted 10.14.2009 | Business


Sony Kapoor

The financial crisis, the biggest in living memory, has tilted the political and financial landscape in a direction that makes Tobin Taxes not just more desirable but also much easier to implement.

The Nobel Prize in Inscrutability (i.e. Economics) Goes to...

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 10.12.2009 | Business


<i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing

The ability to generate a large body of work on matters whose importance are shrouded in mystery is a key attribute of all world-class economists, and Nobel laureates Ostrom and Williamson are in the vanguard.

Nobel Prize For Economics: Elinor Ostrom, Oliver Williamson Win

AP | JEANNINE AVERSA, KARL RITTER and MATT MOORE | Posted 10.12.2009 | Business


WASHINGTON — One scholar studies how best to manage resources like forests, fisheries and oilfields. A fellow American looks at why some compani...

Are Hispanics Just Plain Dumb? Many of Us Think So

Daniel Cubias | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics


Daniel Cubias

White people will go out of their way to avoid looking like they're picking on black people. But when it comes to, say, Hispanics, all bets are off.

Sam Stein

Poll: Obama Doing Woeful Job Selling Stimulus

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics


A huge swath of the American public has either not personally benefited from the stimulus package or not heard of the Obama administration's signature...

"The Endowment Effect": What Behavioral Economists Get Wrong

businessinsider.com | John Carney|Oct. 5, 2009, 8:58 AM |13 | Posted 10.05.2009 | Business


Despite what numerous experiments by behavioral economists seem to show, people do not magically over-value stuff they just happen to already own. Wh...

Health Care Pizza

D. Brad Wright | Posted 10.02.2009 | Politics


D. Brad Wright

Solomon really nailed it on the head when he wrote "What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun." One of the "old" things under the sun, is health care costs.

Mitt Romney's Foreign Policy Vision, in Need of Corrective Lenses

Frankie Sturm | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics


Frankie Sturm

The fact that economies in Europe, Asia, and elsewhere have grown since 1945 is not a sign of American decline. It's a testament to US leadership.

The Lagging Indicator

Mike Lux | Posted 09.22.2009 | Business


Mike Lux

The fights for financial regulation is symbolized by a phrase that the President and his economic advisors repeat too often, indicative of a much deeper problem in their thinking.

Does Anyone in the Healthcare Debate Really Care About Health?

Randall Amster | Posted 09.21.2009 | Living


Randall Amster

How many plans in existence today provide coverage for midwives, naturopaths, nutritionists, masseuses, or the like?

California Attorney General Brown To Launch Investigation Into Rating Agencies' Role In Fueling The Financial Crisis

The Huffington Post | Posted 09.16.2009 | Business


California AG Jerry Brown joins the ranks of Attorneys General to scrutinize the disastrous role the credit rating agencies played in the financial cr...

Chairman Bernanke, We Don't Believe It Is Over

Michelle Kraus | Posted 09.16.2009 | Politics


Michelle Kraus

There is a reason that the American people are losing ObamaHope. It's not just unemployment. The reality cuts much deeper than the everyday lives of normal people.

Obama's Retirement Plan Needs More Nerve

Eric Schurenberg | Posted 09.10.2009 | Business


Eric Schurenberg

The president announced a handful of new initiatives designed to make it easier for American workers to save more for retirement, that makes use of behavioral economics.

Will Low-Skilled Workers Benefit from Economic Recovery?

Brandon Roberts | Posted 09.10.2009 | Business


Brandon Roberts

For millions of Americans at the margins of the labor market, a return to aggregate economic growth is unlikely to improve their personal circumstances.

The Economisseds

Harry Moroz | Posted 09.09.2009 | Business


Harry Moroz

Is market recovery really the same thing as economic recovery?

Disease-Driven Earnings: Is It Time for a New Prescription for "Generation Rx"?

Robyn O'Brien | Posted 09.10.2009 | Business


Robyn O'Brien

In our country, sickness sells. With money-driven medicine, there is little incentive to prevent illness.

Practical Economics 101

Jim Selman | Posted 10.23.2009 | Living


Jim Selman

Can any of us afford the arrogance to operate as if our point of view is the truth?

On Labor Day and Every Workday, Single Women Struggle to Stay Even

Page Gardner | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics


Page Gardner

Now as before the recession, working women are particularly vulnerable to economic insecurity -- especially the 53 million "women on their own."

Simon Johnson on the Evidence for Overmighty Finance

Robert Teitelman | Posted 10.18.2009 | Business


Robert Teitelman

For all its influence, economics doesn't really have much to say about something as fundamental (and yes, complex) as the relationship between the size of the financial sector and growth in the real economy.