September 5

1. MTState math profs get NSF grant to study "instructional coaching."

2. Glaeser on what a city needs.

3. A UChicago prof makes it to the list of Chicago's most eligible bachelors.

4. Acemoglu's take on rising healthcare spending.

5. Miron on Obama's proposed talk to schoolchildren.

September 4

1. Fox: But the economists didn't get everything wrong.

2. MR: What if Kerry had win in 04?

3. Miron: Lessons not learned.

4. EDIWM: Graphic content... dating edition.

5. Fox: Breaking news. Credit Analysts aren't journalists.

September 3

1. Robert Fogel on why health care costs are rising so much.

2. Walmart: A store that crosses party lines, or at least doesn't change them.

3. Miron: Antitrust and uncertainty.

4. Negative marginal revenue? Maybe, but I don't think marginal cost is zero.

5. Hamermesh on Biblical Property Rights.

September 2

1. Easterly on comparative advantage and aid.

2. Bill Gates' Last Day at Microsoft.

3. Miron on the unsuccessful war on opium.

4. Boudreaux on Stimulus, Mackey, and Krugman.

5. UChicagoMag. Chicago is serious, seriously.

September 1

1. Mankiw channels Cesarini in support of his Least Surprising Correlation post.

2. Beggs discusses several aspects of the least surprising correlation.

3. This seminar sounds interesting, but would I get in?

4. Freakonomics: Do burgers make you stupid? ONLY burgers might.

5. Miron: Interesting link on the dubious cost savings of preventative measures, but the first comment seems out of line to me.

August 31

1. Krugman longs for Nixon.

2. Ely points to an article: More casinos to solve our woes.

3. Will there be another Milton Friedman. Klein and Cowen say no.

4. Ely offers a reason that doctors will use placebo treatments too often.

5. Economist.com on the trouble with private schools.

August 30

1. Gary Becker (not of Chicago) struggles with traffic fatalities in Montana.

2. Is this obvious?

3. Boudreaux on Kennedy's cannonization.

4. Mankiw thought he was being boring.

5. Freakonomics: What causes cyclists' deaths? Not surprising. Cyclists are hard to see when you're dodging Hummers.