The Adventures of Shylock Holmes

The eternal question about the civil service is its level of competence . At one end of the spectrum is the curmudgeonly woman at the DMV. A...

[ In the quite useful parlance of Scott Alexander , the epistemic status of this post is fairly uncertain, so take with a grain of salt.]   ...

In the modern world, much parental investment in their children is wasted. Parents would almost certainly be better off investing less per c...

One of the advantages of the economist's training is just the ability to instinctively think in terms of empirical tests. There's a ...

As far as I can tell, the primary problem with Bitcoin is that after you've bought it, you become medically incapable of shutting the @#...

Among most economists (among whom I count myself as one), free trade is a pretty strongly favoured policy. The reasons for this are fairl...

Poverty, to an economist, is mostly an abstract matter. Just like GDP is a number and unemployment is a number, the poverty rate is also mos...

There exists a continual tension among respectable social scientists when trying to understand what influence culture plays on the world. On...