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Category Archives: Economics
Bobs in the News, Part II
La Follette, and Economics professor Menzie Chinn was also recently in the news discussing the role of the dollar as the world’s currency of choice in the Wall Street Journal. The link is below. The Case for the Dollar’s Continued … Continue reading
Labor and Government in Deadlock
Protests continued at the Capitol as crowds swelled to over 68,000 according to unofficial estimates. Other estimates put the crowd size at around 100,000. Debates became even more heated as members of the Tea Party participated in the protests for … Continue reading
Posted in Civil Rights, Congress, Economics, Madison, Politics, Social, Wisconsin Politics
Tagged protests, Unions
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Numbers on the new State Budget Bill
For those of you who are wondering, here are some numbers on how the proposed budget bill will effect workers’ wages, and address the budget deficit facing the state. These numbers come courtesy of Menzie Chinn, a professor with both … Continue reading
Shout out to Statistics!
As a graduate student, it’s so easy—and necessary frankly—to get caught up in a world which revolves around class to class readings, week to week homework sets and the formulaic structure of your next policy memo. It’s really difficult to … Continue reading
Interesting News From Elsewhere
Glenn Greenwald laments the Democrats’ strategy for motivating the base and interviews Russ Feingold. Freakonomics: The Movie comes out on Friday, October 1. Photography Is Not a Crime has a lot of interesting stories about police disallowing people to videotape … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Economics, Ethics, National, News, Policy, Politics, Wisconsin
Tagged Economics, first amendment, photography, Politics, Taxes
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Veep’s Viewpoint – 9/21/2010
The hot question for today: Really? The recession ended last June?! The New York Times has a “Room for Debate” piece pitting the opinions of seven experts against each other discussing specifically “Is This What a Recovery Feels Like?” Those … Continue reading
International Perspectives
The India-China border issue As China finally surpassed Japan to snag the much-coveted ‘world’s second largest economy’ spot last month, all eyes are now focused on China’s seemingly unstoppable growth rates. And since Japan no longer seems an economic contender, … Continue reading
Interesting News From Elsewhere
It’s late, but a New York-based culture blog wrote a primary voting post for Wisconsin. Worth a read even though the primary is over. Aaron Rodgers gets an endorsement. Would you vote for Ron Johnson for $9? What about $9 … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Economics, International, National, News, Wisconsin, Wisconsin Politics
Tagged burka, campsign finance, Economics, France, international, primary, Wisconsin politics
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Nest Egg for Wisconsin’s Students
A Wisconsin economist, Dennis Winters, proposed an interesting new policy in a recent Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education Viewpoints piece. Winters proposes increasing sales tax slightly in order to save $1,000 per student per year intended for … Continue reading
Professor Harris in the New York Times
Read the article here. Discussing the flaws of using value-added models: “But when the method is used to evaluate individual teachers, many factors can lead to inaccuracies. Different people crunching the numbers can get different results, said Douglas N. Harris, … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, education, La Follette, National, News, Research
Tagged Economics, education, Faculty, New York Times, Research
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