Ajay Shah's blog. Alea. All Roads Lead To China. - Alpha.Sources. An Economist in Paradise. Notes on Social Security Reform. Andrew Leigh. Angry Bear. Anonymous Monetarist. Antonio Fatas and Ilian Mihov on the Global Economy. ApacheCadillac. Aplia Econ Blog: News for Economics Students. Arctic Economics. When westerners began to visit the Bering Strait, they were touching the jugular of a thriving trade in furs between America and Asia. Furs from central and northern Alaska, and from as far east as Canada's Mackenzie River drainage, made their way west, from one set of hands to another, through a network of Native fur traders.
The furs were funneled through the Bering Strait, made their way across Chukotka and Siberia, to Russian and Cossack traders, southeast down the Lena River, across and around Lake Baikal, and into China. On the backhaul blue beads, tobacco, knives, axe heads, and iron ware, made their way east. King Island was just south of the Strait, and King Islanders were active middlemen in this trade. John Bockstoce, the historian of the northern whaling industry, has a new book out on the 19th Century northern fur trade: Furs and Frontiers in the Far North. In Furs and Frontiers he describes a visit by Russian explorer/traders to King Island in 1822. Artdiamondblog.com. AspiringEconomist.com: Economics for the aspiring economist. Coordination Problem. |Peter Boettke| Listening to NPR one morning, this story about soccer playing robots came on and I was intrigued by the discussion.
When I entered graduate school and was assigned to Don Lavoie, my expectation would be that I would be working on questions related to the problems of economic calculation under socialism. Of course, I wasn't disappointed as in the first 2 years of graduate study Lavoie was finishing up Rivalry and Central Planning, and National Economic Planning: What is Left? But most of my work for Don at that stage of those projects was reference checking, his argument was already completed and written down. So besides learning by reading his books, I learned how to work the open stacks at the Library of Congress and browse the University of Maryland library shelves to double check and track down accurate references that Lavoie was citing. Well now go back to think about our soccer playing robots. Battlepanda.
BEEZERNOTES. Berkeley economist Bradford DeLong writes an article reminding us that we’re still basically a species whose DNA was hammered out on the plains of East Africa. And at the same time he catches your attention to that piece of our history, as explained by Hungarian economic historian Karl Polanyi, DeLong seamlessly switches into hard core economics. Economics made interesting. DeLong is no doubt an excellent teacher. As John Maynard Keynes shrilly stated back in 1926:Let us clear… the ground…. It is not true that individuals possess a prescriptive ‘natural liberty’ in their economic activities. There is no ‘compact’ conferring perpetual rights on those who Have or on those who Acquire. Beezer here. Ben Muse. Here's a great old postcard of South Yarmouth center. The source at Wikipedia says 1910. Route 28 won't be upgraded until 1933, and then it will come in through the yard on the left and exit towards Bass River across the way, just in front of the first building on the right.
It's not obvious, but Bridge Street already runs off to the right at that spot. A hundred years before, a ropewalk extended from the first building north, along the side of the road, where the line of buildings is. If you follow the road forward and slightly to the left, you can go to Yarmouthport, Weir Village, or South Dennis. If you bear hard right just in front of the first building, you will come to Bass River in a quarter mile and can head across the new bridge to West Dennis.
Source: Wikipedia, Hugh Manatee I'm guessing those automobiles have a 12 mph speed limit. Walk forward a bit, to a point in the road just between the first two trees on the right. First, turn around and look back where you just were: Bluematter. Bob Giloth's Blog. BONOBO LAND. Boom2Bust.com » Maintenance Mode. Grasping Reality with All Six Feet. Bradford Plumer. Brendan Nyhan. David Gergen is the prototypical Washington wise man, an experienced operative who has served under four presidents and was famously brought into the Clinton White House to provide more experienced leadership.
When he's not working in the White House, though, he often makes the rounds as a pundit - and you'll never guess how he thinks President Obama should solve his problems! As Mark Halperin noted on Twitter, Gergen called this week for the administration to hire a "heavyweight" to get his agenda moving in Congress: David Gergen, who has worked for both Republican and Democratic presidents, said the president needs to bring in a Washington "heavyweight" who is schooled in moving an agenda through the capital.
It's advice he's repeated again and again over the years. In Gergen-land, there's no political problem that can't be solved by getting more "heavyweights" involved - check out this (no doubt partial) list from a quick Nexis search: Cassandra Does Tokyo. Director’s Blog. CBO Releases "Updated Estimates of the Effects of the Insurance Coverage Provisions of the Affordable Care Act, April 2014" April 14, 2014CBO and JCT have lowered their estimates of the net federal cost of the ACA’s insurance coverage provisions—to $1.4 trillion over the next decade, about $100 billion less than estimated in February. read more CBO Releases "Updated Budget Projections: 2014 to 2024" April 14, 2014The deficit will decrease to $492 billion in 2014, CBO projects.
CBO Releases "Testimony on Increasing the Minimum Wage: Effects on Employment and Family Income" March 12, 2014Director Doug Elmendorf testified on the effects of raising the minimum wage, noting that such an increase would boost family income for many low-wage workers but that some jobs for low-wage workers would probably be eliminated. The Earth-Based Initiative. Earth Policy Institute – Building a Sustainable Future | Home. Dr. Housing Bubble Blog. Demand Side Blog. Chris Blattman - Research, international development, foreign po.