Economists in a Coal Mine
From the Onion, “Nation’s Economists Quietly Evacuating Their Families”: As employment stagnates, manufacturing continues its slump, and overall confidence in the U.S. financial system wavers, the...
View ArticleFreelance Economist for Rent
From the mail: Hi there, I am a recent graduate of an economics Ph.D. program. I had what I thought was a successful trip through the adventure that is the economics job market and chose the risky but...
View ArticleThe Return of the Freelance Economist
A few weeks back, we posted a query from a young economist who, before heading for the job market, was looking to pick up freelance work. She (yes, she) promised to report back with her progress, and...
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Free-conomics: A New Marketplace Podcast
(Photo: Ken Hawkins) Our latest Freakonomics Radio on Marketplace podcast is called “Free-conomics.” (You can download/subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed, listen via the media player above, or...
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Have a Very Homo Economicus Christmas: A New Marketplace Podcast
(Photo: ahenobarbus) Our latest Freakonomics Radio on Marketplace podcast is called “Have a Very Homo Economicus Christmas.” (You can download/subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed, listen via the...
View ArticleEconomists Making Their End-of-the-World Confessions
Today is the last day on the Mayan calendar, which, according to some, means the world is going to end. This seems about as likely to occur as any economic forecast. And so in preparation, economists...
View ArticleWhen the Economists Arrive, Do the Prostitutes Leave?
I was walking outside the American Economic Association meetings this past Sunday when a man stopped me and asked what all the university professors were doing in one place. I told him that it was the...
View ArticleCalling All Data Memoirists
The statistician Andrew Gelman has asked us to publicize what sounds like a nifty project: a Year-in-the-Life look at what data hounds and statisticians actually do: So here’s the plan. 365 of you...
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Should Candidates for AEA Elections Tell Us What They’re Thinking?
Joshua Gans is an economist at the University of Toronto. He has appeared on this blog before and, as the author of Parentonomics: An Economist Dad Looks at Parenting, was featured in our podcast “The...
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The Nobel Prize Goes to an Odd (but Worthy) Economic Trio
(Photo: Solis Invicti) I awoke yesterday to the happy news that two of my friends won the Nobel Prize in economics.* Gene Fama was one of the three recipients. He and I share two important beliefs...
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