Curious and Successful

Seth Godin writes in a post today:I've noticed that people who read a lot of blogs and a lot of books also tend to be intellectually curious, thirsty for knowledge, quicker to adopt new ideas and...

Not Your Granddaddy’s Unemployment

Here’s a letter that I sent yesterday to the Washington Post: Your front-page story on talented, credentialed, and underemployed Melissa Meyer should dispel the notion that today’s...

work wear: stylish totes for big laptops

Having recently upgraded to a newer and larger (15″) laptop, I soon realized that my go-to “computer” tote was not going to hold this beast. So, knowing that I had a business trip...

Unemployment-Smoothing, Krugman, and Quackery

Commenting on this post, Daniel Kuehn suggests that when Paul Krugman advocates European-style labor-market restrictions and subsidies, he (Krugman) does so not as a means of increasing employment...

Perhaps Demand Curves Slope Upward to the Right – or, Alternative-Universe Economics

Here’s a letter that I sent yesterday to the New York Times: To combat unemployment, Paul Krugman supports “labor rules that discourage firing” (”Free to Lose,” Nov....