Podcast and Goodfellows

Here are links to this week's grumpy economist podcast , and Goodfellows discussio n with Niall Ferguson and H.R.  McMaster. Grumpy on t...

Unemployment insurance weaning

As the economy recovers, public policy faces an inevitable dilemma. How do we wean the economy from support? This comes to the head with f...

Airlines and information

Airlines are in big trouble. Even after reopening, nobody wants to fly, perceiving them as dangerous. But are airline flights dangerous? A...

Jones and Fernández-Villaverde update

Chad Jones and Jesús Fernández-Villaverde have updated their SIR mode l with social distancing. A part I find very intriguing is that they ...

Good Fellows -- International Man of History

A new lively Good Fellows discussion video and podcast Direct links here if the above embed codes don't work. from The Gru...

Get Ready for the Careful Economy

Source: Wall Street Journal Ready or not—mostly not—the reopening is at hand. The economic carnage of a continued lockdown is simp...

School of sustainability

In a few recent posts, I was critical of university endowment practices. Why build up a stock of investment, rather than invest in faculty, ...

Filling Last-Minute Cancellations

During this challenging time, it may be harder to keep your practice schedule full. Your patients may be home-schooling their children or re...

Reopening the economy, and aftermath, now on Youtube

My Bendheim Center talk and discussion with Markus Brunnermeier on all things Covid-19 and economics is now on YouTube, direct link here ....

Endowment humor

Steven Wood writes a wonderful letter from a university president , responding to suggestions that a university dip in to its endowment, As...

Schmitz on monopoly

Jim Schmitz has released the first salvo in what promises to be a monumental work on monopoly, titled  Monopolies Inflict Great Harm on Low-...

Reopening the economy -- and the aftermath

I'm doing a Zoom talk at the Bendheim Center, Princeton, with Markus Brunnermeier, 12:30 Eastern today (Monday May 18) on this, tune ...

Strategies for Monetary Policy

Strategies for Monetary Policy  is a new book from the Hoover Press based on the conference by that name John Taylor and I ran last May. (J...

Finding Patients to Schedule After Reopening

Now that many dental offices have been able to re-open, it’s time to get patients scheduled. For many offices, looking at an empty Appointme...

Comment apology

To my commenters: I hit the wrong button this morning while cleaning up the huge amount of spam that comes in the comments, and many good co...

Friday podcasts

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Markets work even in crisis

A lovely result of the corona virus outbreak has been how we see stifling aspects of regulations. Right left and center are figuring out tha...

Covid and economics publishing

The pandemic is dramatically illustrating one area in which the epidemiologists are beating the economists about 100-1: publishing. Scientif...

Returning to Work - 4 Recommendations and How to Implement Them Using Dentrix

As many states are preparing to re-open dental practices for non-emergency procedures, the American Dental Association has released a Return...

An SIR model with behavior

Following my last post , the SIR model has been completely and totally wrong. Answers follow from assumptions. It assumes a constant reprodu...

Dumb reopening might just work

A smart reopening, with well worked out protocols at work, and a robust competent test and trace public health response to stamp out the emb...