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1.An Organic Discount? (freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com)
For most products, an "organic" label results in a significant price premium. However, a new study finds that the opposite is true for California wines labeled as "made from organically grown grapes."
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2.Keeping Workers Happy – and Working (freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com)
Much economic research stresses the role of pensions and Social Security in inducing retirement-altering the labor supply of older workers. Yet there are also demand-side effects that make firms unwilling to allow most workers to ease out.
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3.The Persistence of the Primitive Food Movement (freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com)
Americans are currently embracing a strange sort of primitivism. Bicycles are losing gears, runners are afoot in shoes designed to create a barefoot sensation (some are even running barefoot), and men are growing bushy Will Oldham-like beards. It's all...
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4.Obama the Talmudist? (freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com)
The inspiration for a recent Obama speech.
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5.How to Become an Insta-Expert: A Confession (freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com)
Using the prediction markets to become an insta-expert in just about anything.
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6.The Dangers of Too Much Data (freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com)
Wondering whether aspirin will protect your heart or cause internal bleeding? Or whether you should kick your coffee habit or embrace it? It's often hard to make sense of the conflicting advice that comes out of medical research studies.
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7.Friends Don't Let Friends ... (freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com)
The origins of a classic phrase.
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8.Small Improvements Save Lots of Time (freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com)
Small technical changes often shift our production possibility frontier outward, and make a big difference in our well-being, even if they don't increase measured GDP.
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9.The Piano Matters (freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com)
History's greatest composers wrote for their pianos, and a new Slate article by Jan Swafford argues that only an old piano can play Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata as Beethoven intended it.
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10.Charlemagne: Europe's hypochondriacs (www.economist.com)
Most Europeans are doing better than they think, and can take more fiscal austerityIMAGINE two cousins. One comes from continental Europe, France, perhaps. A hypochondriac, his life is filled with vague complaints—stress, fatigue and mysterious a...
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11.Indonesia's parliamentary showdown: Unchaining the reformers (www.economist.com)
After a hard-won battle, President Yudhoyono has a chance to start againFEZ-WEARING members of Indonesia’s parliament called each other transvestites, yelled and scuffled. Outside, the police turned water cannon on protesting students. The climax...
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12.Dealing with budget deficits: Who pays the bill? (www.economist.com)
Throughout the rich world battle lines are being drawn in the coming fight over deficit reductionWHEN friends go out to dinner, the convivial atmosphere can be shattered once the waiter brings the bill. A pleasant evening can descend into a dispute abo...
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13.Dealing with fiscal deficits: Sharing the pain (www.economist.com)
Increasing budget deficits and rising government debts are likely to entail fierce political battles—not least between taxpayers and public-sector workersWHEN times are hard, many people are tempted to let their credit cards take the strain for a...
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14.Greece's fiscal crisis: Now comes the pain (www.economist.com)
The government’s new austerity measures may prove to be enough—so long as they are fully implementedGEORGE PAPACONSTANTINOU, the overworked Greek finance minister, likens the effort to steer Greece away from economic disaster to “chan...
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15.Gender and Fender Benders (freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com)
We're coming to the end of a series on whether the man or the woman is more likely to take the wheel when a couple is in the car. Eric Morris argues that whether the man or woman is more likely to drive is literally a question of life and death.
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16.Quotes Uncovered: Sacred Cows and Misbehaving Children (freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com)
Each week, I've been inviting readers to submit quotations whose origins they want me to try to trace, using my book, The Yale Book of Quotations, and my more recent research. Here is the latest round.
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17.Dept. of Unintended Consequences, Haiti Edition (freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com)
Unintended consequences of aid in Haiti.
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18.An Economist's View of the New Oscar Voting (freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com)
Sunday's Oscar night will be different. First, there are now ten nominees for best picture. But perhaps more importantly, the voting system has changed.
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19.An Economist's View of the New Oscar Voting (freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com)
Sunday's Oscar night will be different. First, there are now ten nominees for best picture. But perhaps more importantly, the voting system has changed.
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20.The Medal Count, by Market Value (freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com)
Cybermetrics calculated this year's Olympics champion, by market value of the medals - Canada takes first place with a total haul of $9,635.
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21.The Medal Count, by Market Value (freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com)
Cybermetrics calculated this year's Olympics champion, by market value of the medals - Canada takes first place with a total haul of $9,635.
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22.Economics focus: On deaf ears (www.economist.com)
Does India’s government pay any heed to its economic advisers?ECONOMISTS like nothing better than giving advice to governments. But why do they, of all people, imagine that anyone listens? In their models economists assume that governments, like ...
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23.Prudential buys AIA: Grand Pru (www.economist.com)
The insurance industry’s biggest-ever acquisition has prompted the largest-ever rights issue: AIG and Prudential are both playing for huge stakesINSURANCE is a pretty stodgy business. This week’s agreement by Prudential of Britain to buy AI...
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24.14.64 Labor Economics and Public Policy (MIT) (www.pheedcontent.com)
This course is an introduction to labor economics with an emphasis on applied microeconomic theory and empirical analysis. We are especially interested in the link between research and public policy. Topics to be covered include: labor supply and deman...
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25.Race and Romance: An Uneven Playing Field for Black Women (freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com)
A fascinating but depressing analysis of messaging at OkCupid.com suggests that discriminatory male preferences are a wider phenomenon.
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