Do you pay your kids for good grades?
A vexing question for a parent, particularly an economist, is whether or not to reward your kids monetarily for higher school grades. Let me admit...
Those were the days …
The Band, Old Rocking Chair c.1970 [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9M4azk6-GM&w=420&h=315]
Poets, businesswomen, doctors and inventors
I once heard a person, in reference to the note at right, that you could tell a great deal about a country by who they...
The rise of China, Part III: insurgent capitalists?
In part I and part II, I discussed the general geo-political implications of the rise of China, and the internal dynamics within the Chinese bureaucracy...
Call Obama: maybe
Well I'm not the first to the party - 26 million late in fact, but it's fun nevertheless. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hX1YVzdnpEc]
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As some readers may have noticed (assuming you can access us at all), the performance of Troppo is still distinctly dodgy despite Jacques shifting from...
Diminishing marginal productivity
The picture below is of a mountainous area in Spain. It used to be full of small-scale farmers and is now almost deserted. Over the...