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When I Steal A Blog Post, I Leave A Link

{ Posted on Nov 10 2011 by Ken Houghton }
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Categories : All, Angry Bear, Education, employment, Great Recession, human capital, jobless recovery, STEM, Uncategorized
I wanted to look at the WSJ job database, suspecting what I might find, but currently lack the bandwidth in a major way.Fortunately, Noah took some (more) time from his thesis ("distraction from productive activity") and did the dirty work. ...Read More »

Dave Dayen Is Wrong

{ Posted on Oct 26 2011 by Ken Houghton }
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Categories : All, Angry Bear, Economics, Education, human capital, income inequality, OWS, Uncategorized
And not in a good way, when he says:I understand that Republicans are just playing the culture war game here, trying to link Warren and the loony left. I don’t know how that will play in, er, Massachusetts. And the ...Read More »

The Cost of Labor

{ Posted on Sep 05 2011 by Ken Houghton }
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Categories : All, Angry Bear, capital labor ratio, compensation, human capital, labor, Uncategorized
The standard model of Economic Development is Romer’s (1989, JPE 1990) adaptation* of Solow’s (1956, 1957) Model.  Basically, became Y = AKα(HL)(1-α) where the H stands for ...Read More »

It’s Not that the White House Lies Even to Itself…

{ Posted on Aug 04 2011 by Ken Houghton }
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Categories : All, Angry Bear, economic decline, human capital, Obama, politics, Uncategorized
It's that they are so bad at it.At least they made clear that Glenn Greenwald was correct when he said the deal is exactly what Obama wanted:Fact: President Obama laid out key priorities that had to be part of any ...Read More »

It Takes a Village: Scarcity, the NCAAs, and the Decline of U.S. Manufacturing

{ Posted on Apr 04 2011 by Ken Houghton }
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Categories : All, Angry Bear, Education, higher ed, human capital, just life, socialism, sports, Uncategorized
I don't remember seeing any of this type of story last year. But this year, Socialism stories abound from the Midwest.My ex-roommate* sends this link to a story about Butler Bulldogs's Senior Matt Howard's family being able to attend the ...Read More »

This is US. We have done all of this.

{ Posted on Mar 28 2011 by Divorced one like Bush }
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Categories : All, Angry Bear, budget deficits, human capital, Humanity, Military expenditures, Uncategorized, war
by: Daniel Becker This is very important.  It is a list of all we have done in the world.   Go take a look.  It won't take long.  I'll wait for you to return. That we do not teach about this in our schools ...Read More »

My Governor, as usual, Fails Math

{ Posted on Feb 09 2011 by Ken Houghton }
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Categories : All, Angry Bear, Education, human capital, innumeracy, NJ, state spending plans, Uncategorized
You have to love Chris Christie. The man who said NJ couldn't afford a tunnel whose cost with overruns was expected to be less than $10B is now backing a tunnel whose initial cost estimate is $13B.That the great state ...Read More »

The Economics of History, Douthat-Style

{ Posted on Jan 03 2011 by Ken Houghton }
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Categories : All, Angry Bear, bad economics, Brad DeLong, demographics, human capital, Idiocy, NYT, Ross Douthat, safety net, social science
I try not to pay attention—and not provide a direct link—to the NYT's Stupidest Conservative. It's one of the greatest advantages of having Susan of Texas around: you can go there and see anything I might write, done better, and ...Read More »

The Rich Stay Healthy, the Sick Stay Poor

{ Posted on Jan 02 2011 by Ken Houghton }
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Categories : All, Angry Bear, economic development, Health care costs, health care thoughts, human capital, just life, safety net
Health and Economic Development Primer in one easy lesson (via SocProf's Twitter feed):This is not surprising to see the contrast between the prosperous (at least until now) areas, in green where chronic illnesses prevail but are diseases tied to aging, ...Read More »

Economic Development Made Real

{ Posted on Oct 11 2010 by Ken Houghton }
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Categories : All, Angry Bear, economic development, human capital
Via David Roodman's Twitter feed, the Economic Development video to watch if you're watching only one:Pull Quote: "We have several unintended consequences that show that while we were growing Pakistan economically, we retarded our community, we retarded our ability to ...Read More »
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