Consider Moving to Finland

This piece is an interesting read and might provide a good backdrop for considering the 2020 election.

Some Sobering Thoughts about Economic Incentives

The authors were selected for Nobel Prize in Economics this year.  They know their stuff!

Duflo and Banerjee

The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics.

The award was made for development economics.

An Interesting Piece on How Paying for College Creates Stress on Middle Class Life

If you do read this piece I'd be curious to know whether your family is in this situation and/or whether you know others at the U of I who are in this situation.

How Paying for College Is Changing Middle-Class Life

Are Economists Good For The Economy?

This piece says they aren't.  I want to note that not all economists should be included here.  But the majority of the profession should be.

Blame Economists for the Mess We're In

Innovation in Undergraduate Education

This is an interesting read because it is an indictment against what regular higher education seems to have become.  All the alternatives seem, in some sense, to want to go back to an earlier time.  I wonder if students in our class feel this same need even as the pursue the Economics major at the U of I.  (Note that I don't have a Tag called Education in the News, so I used the closest one to that.)

The Anti-College Is on the Rise

Temps and Contractors - Dual Labor Markets

This piece is about temps at Google.  Temp jobs are clearly less attractive to the employee, but people will take them when a permanent job is not available.  The question is - what jobs are permanent and what jobs are temp?  When the same job has both sorts of employees, it makes one scratch one's head and wonder why.  Is it market power for the firm in the labor market.  (This is sometimes called monopsony.)  Is the temp job an internship, but with a different label?  Or is there some other explanation?