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Great Questions of Economics (GQE)

January 1-24, 2003

Drug Patents and Poor Countries
Supply-side Economics for Israel
Recent Trends in Income and Wealth
A Deflation Primer
Lucas vs. Tobin
Deficits and Interest Rates
Oil and Terrorism
Two Models of Government
Portfolio Allocation and Dividend Taxation
Health Care Spending Pattern Puzzle
Money, Happiness, and Diminishing Returns
Class Warfare or the Battle of Sex?
U.S. vs. Canada Drug Price Wars
Long-term Deficits
Printer and Cartridge Pricing
Who Needs Creative Commons?
Knowledge and Growth
The Unnatural History of SUV's
Values and Prosperity
A Good Tax
More on Dividend Taxation
Education Research
The Stimulus Package

December 2002

Water and Markets
Medicare
Seeing Growth in a Bag of Flour
Lessons in Internet Economics
Innovation and the Internet
Still Dragging
Health Care Reform
Eulogies for Lawrence Lindsay
Efficient Security
Fighting Hunger to Excess
Education and Signaling
Electronic Payment
China's Growth Overstated?
Great Questions of DeLong
Pure and Applied Science
Cracking the Code of Growth
Divergence, Big Time?
Is the Stock Market Efficient?

November 2002

Bullish on China
Food Fight
Betting Against Tax Reform
Realism on Energy
Who gets transfer payments?
The Jane Galt Tax Plan
Deflation in the U.S.?
Describing the Global Imbalance
Redistributing CEO Compensation
The Medicare Crisis
Marginal vs. Lump-Sum Tax Cuts
Institutions and Growth
Growth and the Environment
The Pessimist
The Optimist
The Impossible Mission Fund
The Argentina Exception
A Tax on Fat?
Financial Markets in Communist China
Economic Mobility
Economic Freedom
Global Imbalance
Ideas for Democrats, con't
Don't Buy Insurance
Ideas for the Democrats
Consumption vs. Income
Labor Market Turnover
Sweetwater vs. Saltwater
Too Complex and Interdependent

October 2002

Against Tax Reform
Kling vs. Krugman on Political Economy
DeLong Muffs It
Old-fashioned Microeconomics
Old-fashioned Macroeconomics
Moore's Law and Growth
Agoraphobia
Income Distribution or Consumption Distribution?
Moore's Law and the Economics of Crime
Poverty and Terrorism
Krugman on Inequality
The Elusive Quest for Growth
A Trend in Music Pricing?
Inequality, Institutions, and Growth
Taxes and the Business Cycle
Margin of Safety
Chicago Slaps Back
De-romanticizing Labor Unions
Measuring Global Poverty
Hubbard: Economy is Sound
Will Kurzweil live Forever?
The Copyright Tax
Nobel Slaps Chicago
Economics of the Wireless Last Mile
Too Much is Not Enough
FCC Chairman Cites Coase
Solow on Environmentalism
Solow on Keynes
Solow on Globalization
Solow on the Solow Paradox

September 2002

DeLong on laughing gas?
California, revisited
Productivity, Progress, and Displacement
Economists and the Stock Market
The Real Issue with Social Security
Financial Markets and Economic Performance
Economic History Lesson
Deflation Fear
Class Warfare Bites Back
The Fed is not Trapped
Health Care Policy
Liberals Vs. Conservatives
Re-drawing the Poverty Line
Getting the Price Right
Productivity Growth in a Recession
Black Markets and Russia's Failure
Deadweight Loss
Tobin Updated
Countercyclical Fiscal Policy
Job Creation Puzzle
Evidence for a Housing Bubble
Behavior Economics and Behavioral Political Science
Countercyclical Regulatory Policy
Beyond Ideology
European Home for the Aged
Intellectual Property Overkill?
Information Highway Robbery?
Growth as a Silver Lining
Can Greenspan Steer?

August 2002

Paradox of Profits
Journalism Flunks Economics
Environmentalism Flunks Economics
Taxation and Corporate Behavior
Foreign Aid and Corruption
Who Sets Interest Rates?
Housing Bubble
The Exuberant Science
Electricity Pricing
Present Value of Prius
Exuberant Growth?
Genetic Information and Health Care
The legacy of the Internet Bubble
What's Wrong with the U.S.?
What's Wrong with Europe?
Economics of Global Warming
Bear Market Silver Lining?
Dumb Mobs
Tracking Monetary Policy
Government: Friend or Foe?

July 2002

Killing the Prescription Drug Goose
Lower Trend Unemployment
Potential GDP
Moore's Law and Wireless
Autocracy and Economic Outcomes
Macroeconomic Impact of State Governments
Are Stocks a Bargain?
Stock Options and Overstated Earnings
Peanut Butter Buys Jelly
Gary Becker on Economics
The Case for Toll Roads
The Future of Macro
Death of Newspapers
Growth and Education
Choosing to be Uninsured
Stiglitz and his Discontents
Regulatory Capture
Pitfalls of Smart Products
Abolish the Music Industry?
Bequests and Inequality
Social Security and the Stock Market
Computers and Productivity
Rogoff stands up to Stiglitz

June 2002

Course Notes on Growth
Executive Stock Options
Vouchers Squeak By
The Case Against Prescription Drug Benefits
The Case Against Amtrak
The Case for Sweatshops
Europe Missing the IT Revolution?
Labor Market Restrictions
Outbreaks of Laziness?
Blogging and Open Source
The Internet and Productivity
Imported Inequality
Bubble Worries
Baseball and Socialism
Would You Pay to Destroy Someone Else's Wealth?
Investor Beliefs and Volatile Stock Markets
Japan, Demographics, and the U.S.
Why do CD's Still Sell?
Attacking the Pharmaceutical Industry
Comparative Advantage
Our farm subsidies, their hunger
Laggard Latin America
Information Does not Want to be Free
Decline in Global Poverty, Inequality
Public Sector Distortions
Drug War Costs Vs. Benefits
Profits in the New Economy
College Tuition and Socialism
Genetic Enhancement and Competition
Environmental Religion
Decentralization and the Internet

May 2002

Understanding Globalization
Owners vs. Management
Still in a Bubble?
Demographic Realities
Characteristics of Failed Countries
Sachs on Argentina: Dollarize
The Next Ism
Setting a Bad Example
Single-payer Health Care?
Stock Options and Earnings
Soros and Stiglitz vs. Free Markets
Privatizing Spectrum
California Energy Price-fixing
The Farm Bill
Development Aid that Works
Thirty-year Forecast

April 2002

Europeans More Productive than U.S.?
Music Storage
An Introduction to Macro
Megan's investment guide
Frankston and the FCC
Economics and Pollution Control
Trade Agreements Undemocratic?
Consolidate the Regulators?
The Problem with Social Security
Betting Against CD's
Optimism about Moore's Law
An Economist on Spectrum Allocation
Signs of Black Progress, with More to Come
More Optimism from DeLong
Another Oil Crisis?
A Natural Experiment in Foreign Aid
Economic Ignorance Patrol
Dornbusch on Exchange Rates
CEO's and Ballplayers
McArdle Vs. Krugman
Economists Vs. Environmentalists II

March 2002

Fattening the Obesity Statistics
Productivity Optimist
Diversity in Government?
Federal Europe?
Globalization Primer
Economists vs. Environmentalists
Explaining Property Values
The Too-Little-Inflation Trap
Reviewing De Soto
Apostle of Growth
Russian Flat Tax
Asymptotically Free Riders
Balancing Up
The Price is Right
Prescriptions for Education
Digital Divide Crossed
Nanotechnology and Big Government
Social Security Solvent?
Dissing the Web
Demographic Transition
Business Models for Music
Accounting after Enron
Barriers to Riches
Obesity, Disease of Affluence
Economics and the Environment
Recalling James Tobin
The Trade Representative Speaks Out
Simulating Social Epidemics
Safire Bites Free Enterprise
Steel Tariffs
Why Do They Love Us?
Krugman on Social Security
Capital from China
Free Trade Under Attack
Flow of Funds
New Law to Repeal Gravity

February 2002

Great Put-down
Wal-Mart, Growth, and Ideology
Debating Growth Doctrine
Telecom Outlook
Competitive Economy
It's the Application, Stupid
Sell Your Organs?
Missing the Point
Asymptotically Free Goods
Five Routes for the Last Mile?
Social Learning and Participatory Databases
Posner on Copyright
1 + 1 = 1.5?
Free Connectivity
Boring Broadband
Housing Bubble II?
Housing Bubble?
Trial and Error or Planning
Japan's Deflation
Measuring Poverty
75 Percent Mental
Bet on the Euro?
Goldilocks Green?
Growth and Power
Pension Paternalism?
Stuck in the q
Auditing Conflicts
Remedial Product Development?
Copyright Luddites
Opportunity in Poverty
Legacy Music Distribution Problem
Legacy Charter Problem
Competing with Government
Debating Demographics
What Makes Countries Grow?
Globalization Protesters
Broadband a Public Good?
Software Contest
Economics of Volunteers
Standards Create Value
Dotcon
Compulsory Licensing?
Growth Doctrine
Economic Stimulus, R.I.P.
More Privacy Luddites
Fear-Greed Factor
Growth and Competition
Growth vs. Buzz
Amtrak
Privacy Luddites
Reverse Wealth Effect
Employment Flows

January 2002

Stocks not Risky?
Worse than Enron?
Internet Search Corrupt?
The State of Neoliberalism
Enron Specifics
Optional Scapegoat
Open Spectrum
Peer Production
Polar Visions
Assessing Tax Cuts
Changing the Accounting Game
Growth Doctrine
Crony Capitalism
Economic Consequences of Terrorism
Reversing the Spectrum Allocation
Another Broadband Wacko
Fit to Blog
Broadband Wants to be Subsidized?
Derivative Abuse
Bandwidth Wants to be Free?
Information Wants to be Free
As Good as it Gets
Other Pygmies
The Tallest Pygmy
Fools and Their Money
Economists on Argentina
Bleeding-heart Free Trade
Limits to Growth
Unintended Consequences
Make or Buy?
Argentina
Broadband and Regulation
Blogging for Dollars
Micropayments
Enron as a Hedge Fund
Wealth, Savings, and Behavior
Trade Barriers and Racism
Ford Layoffs
Accounting Scandals II
State Governments
Brin, Growth and Web Logs
Krugman vs. Economics
Evil Music Distributors, II
Accounting Scandals
Evil Music Industry
Poverty and Illegitimacy
Evil Drug Companies
Cheerful about Collapse
Hyperinflation Trauma
America's Class War
Micropayments' Great Champion
The Growth Crusade
Longevity in the United States
Science and Markets

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