Google fiddles with the weights and measures of commerce.
Thursday, September 18, 2025
2:00PM Water Cooler 1/04/2021
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Disruption of Seaborne Trade in South East Asia: A Quantitative Analysis
Restrictions to shipping due to military sanctions could have large negative effects on economic welfare for countries all over the world, including oil exporters such as the UAE and Saudi Arabia
Mayberry v. KKR Is Back as Attorney General Intervention Approved, Beneficiaries’ Counsel Files Third Amended Complaint
The latest on the seemingly never-ending Kentucky Retirement Systems case, Mayberry v. KKR.
Best of Mankiw: Errors and Tangles in the World’s Best-Selling Economics Textbooks
Harvard’s Greg Mankiw is taken to task by Serious Economist Peter Bofinger for some major howlers in Mankiw’s textbooks.
Shutting Off Comments
Comments are off until futher notice.
The Clams of Poland’s Municipal Water Plants (and Other Biosensors)
Biosensors can be defined as systems that detect chemicals using living organisms, or as machines. Whole-animal biosensors can detect Covid.
The Top 10 Weather and Climate Events of a Record-Setting Year
In an all-around bizarre and largely unpleasant calendar year, extreme weather and climate-related changes contributed to the woes of 2020.
Economist Dennis Snower Says Economics Nears a New Paradigm
A perhaps too-upbeat take on the possibilty of big changes in the economics profession.
Epidemiological and Economic Consequences of Government Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic
Another look at Covid containment strategies.
