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Don't Call Me a Philistine

How to Be Mr. Popular When You're Old

Western Culture: Crisis of Confidence?

Flight of the Red Balloon: Don't Believe the Hype

Stepping on Will's Toes

Two New Fun Lectures

Married with 19 Kids = Single & Childless

Econ Prof Lead Character in New Movie

My Views on Optimal Family Size: Some Clarifications

The Debaters: A Childishly Long Reply to Will

Perceived Duty to Have Children, by Gender

Is Family Size a Gendered Issue?

Jamie-Lynn Spears' Pregnancy: What's the Problem?

Modernity and the Gender Gap: It's Counter-Intutive

Jefferson Against Newspapers

A Result I Was Happy to Hear

Emerson on Tipping Charity

The Root Causes of Divorce: The Usual Suspects

The Coase Theorem and Divorce; Or, the Familial Economy of Hate

How I Would Advertise Nip/Tuck in the AER

Don't Call Me a Philistine

How to Be Mr. Popular When You're Old

Western Culture: Crisis of Confidence?

Flight of the Red Balloon: Don't Believe the Hype

Stepping on Will's Toes

Two New Fun Lectures

Married with 19 Kids = Single & Childless

Econ Prof Lead Character in New Movie

My Views on Optimal Family Size: Some Clarifications

The Debaters: A Childishly Long Reply to Will

Perceived Duty to Have Children, by Gender

Is Family Size a Gendered Issue?

Jamie-Lynn Spears' Pregnancy: What's the Problem?

Modernity and the Gender Gap: It's Counter-Intutive

Jefferson Against Newspapers

A Result I Was Happy to Hear

Emerson on Tipping Charity

The Root Causes of Divorce: The Usual Suspects

The Coase Theorem and Divorce; Or, the Familial Economy of Hate

How I Would Advertise Nip/Tuck in the AER

Birth Order and Safety

Gary Gygax, RIP

There's a Name for What I Am

Who Says Economics Causes Asperger's?

The Case for Kids: What I'm Up Against

The State of the Arts: Cowen Was Right

The Production Function and the Road Not Taken: A Question for Writers

Writers' Strike Brings Great Writing to Network TV

Miscommunication with Megan

How Can Guys Be So Lazy Around the House?

Randian Scene of the Year in There Will Be Blood

The Old-Fashioned Personality

Paternomics: Levitt's Parenting vs. Mine

Dexter and Dostoyevsky

Gladwell on IQ: My Chance to Answer Two Plausible But Over-rated Arguments

Taste for Variety

Men of Respect

The Posnerian View of Human Nature

Six Months of Intellectual Anthropology

Is Gender a Big Deal?

Experimental Game Theory at HeroCon

You Might Be An Economist If You Laugh At These Jokes

The Golddigger's Dilemma

Learn Social Science at the Grocery Checkout

Understanding Gender

The Sociology of RPGs: A Case Study in Cultural Growth

"Inessential Weirdness": Nothing Is More Essential

A Sociologist Gamer on the Sociology of Gaming

You Call This Atomism?

Economic Elitism Thought Experiment

Opera versus the NFL

Aging Rockers vs. the Long Tail

Conventional Reflections

Superheroic Dominance in U.S. Comics: A Case of Path-Dependence?

Freakonomics: The T.V. Series

The Demographic Transition

Who Wants More Kids?, Part II

Who Wants More Kids?

Beyond the Pale

Transporting Success

Has the Internet Helped the Socially Awkward?

Contrarian Result of the Day

Can I Buy My Way Into the Comic Book Industry? Should I?

Romney: A Failure of Imagination

Most Bizarre Sentence Ever?

Libertyman

Fighting the Religious Gender Gap

Building a Better Idiot

And a Child Shall Lead Them

I Wish I Wrote That

"Jewish Media" Proves Extremely Fair

A Kuranian Take on the Religious Gender Gap

The Far-Seeing Arnold

Milton Friedman: The Man Who Laughs

Polygamy: Facts Not Fear

Suburban Happiness

More on Fundamentalist Divorce

Found: A False Stereotype About Fundamentalists

See Saw III... If You've Got Nothing Better to Do

The Fundamentalist Stereotype: A Vindication

Policing Economic Illiteracy

A Black Gamer Speaks

Cities and Educated Elites

Homage to Catalonia

Theory of the Hooligan Firm

Economics and charity runs

My Fake Economist Article

Kaplin's Simplifiid Speling

An Economist's Guide to Happier Parenting

Are You Big Enough to Tolerate Polygamy?

Tyler on Art Subsidies

Economist's Apprentice, Master Humorist

General Equilibrium: The Reality Series

Profit, Office Politics, and Creativity

Be Fruitful and Multiply by 1.5

E for Excited

Capitalism: You Look Marvelous

Pseudo-Fads: A Puzzle

Two Cheers for the Jedi

Martyrs and Gamers

The Missing Martyrs

Ayn Rand, Wise Philosopher Despite Some Bad Arguments

Ayn Rand, the Russian-American Victor Hugo


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May 9, 2008

Don't Call Me a Philistine



Unlike the last French arthouse movie I saw, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is excellent. If, like me, you......MORE

April 29, 2008

How to Be Mr. Popular When You're Old



When I'm old, I want to be the octogenarian that the Young Turks come to with their crazy new ideas.......MORE

April 26, 2008

Western Culture: Crisis of Confidence?



From Mark Steyn's paranoid but enviably well-written America Alone:The question for today's Europe is whether the primary identity of their......MORE

April 25, 2008

Flight of the Red Balloon: Don't Believe the Hype



The one good thing about this boring, boring movie was walking out!......MORE

April 22, 2008

Stepping on Will's Toes



Will Wilkinson's not too happy with my lecture on "Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids." Frankly, we seem to be......MORE

April 21, 2008

Two New Fun Lectures



I've just uploaded two new talks to my "Fun Lectures" webpage: 1. Lecture notes for my Friday FEE/GMU Econ Society......MORE

April 14, 2008

Married with 19 Kids = Single & Childless



Happiness researchers usually find that kids have a negative effect on happiness. By the time the result gets blogged, it's......MORE

April 10, 2008

Econ Prof Lead Character in New Movie



The most fascinating characters in the world are econ profs, but you'd never guess this from watching feature films. So......MORE

April 7, 2008

My Views on Optimal Family Size: Some Clarifications



Kerry Howley has some thoughtful doubts about my ongoing debate with Will Wilkinson. And happily they're easy to address one......MORE

April 5, 2008

The Debaters: A Childishly Long Reply to Will



Will Wilkinson has a lot to say about my views about kids - and as you know, I'm never one......MORE

April 4, 2008

Perceived Duty to Have Children, by Gender



At risk of provoking more psycho-analysis... In 1996, the GSS asked: If the husband in a family wants children, but......MORE

April 3, 2008

Is Family Size a Gendered Issue?



All-around nice guy Will Wilkinson takes me to task for my defense of Jamie-Lynn Spears. Will starts with a little......MORE

March 31, 2008

Jamie-Lynn Spears' Pregnancy: What's the Problem?



A lot of folks are outraged that Jamie-Lynn Spears is pregnant. I fail to see the problem. Jamie-Lynn is clearly......MORE

March 30, 2008

Modernity and the Gender Gap: It's Counter-Intutive



A while back on blogged on the fascinating fact that the religious gender gap is bigger in more advanced societies.......MORE

March 28, 2008

Jefferson Against Newspapers



When I was reading some famous quotes about newspapers, I came across Jefferson's famous line that, "Were it left to......MORE

March 24, 2008

A Result I Was Happy to Hear



I often go to movies alone. Tyler convinced me to try, and I haven't looked back. So naturally I'm delighted......MORE

March 24, 2008

Emerson on Tipping Charity



Over at the Freakonomics blog, Ian Ayres lists Emerson as a famous opponent of tipping, and offers this quote as......MORE

March 22, 2008

The Root Causes of Divorce: The Usual Suspects



Reading Tim Harford's "Is Divorce Underrated?" in The Logic of Life got me wondering about the root causes of divorce.......MORE

March 18, 2008

The Coase Theorem and Divorce; Or, the Familial Economy of Hate



In The Logic of Life, Tim Harford repeats an argument about divorce that I've often heard economists make. One of......MORE

March 14, 2008

How I Would Advertise Nip/Tuck in the AER



Last time I checked, there weren't any ads for popular DVDs in the American Economic Review. But after watching the......MORE


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