Marshalsea de nos jours

Debtor’s prisons are supposed to be illegal in the United States but today poor people who fail to pay even small criminal justice fees are...

chess à trois

There is a rule sheet ( next page ), but you can start playing without it and refer to it as needed.  Basically, three sets of pieces (the...

Tabarrok on Arrow

Arrow showed that when a group chooses, there are no underlying preferences to uncover--not even in theory. In one sense , the theorem is tr...

boids

Alex Tabarrok on bird death. How Stuff Works on statistics of bird death. (Wind turbines 10,000-40,000; power lines 130-174 million...) A...

Last Call

Cowen on Last Call: Okrent can't claim to have discovered Prohibition; Michael Lerner's recent Dry Manhattan is another good entr...

moral hazard revisited

Alex Tabarrok draws attention to a paper by Richard Squire in the Harvard Law Review: If liability on a firm’s contingent debt is especiall...

new game new game new game

Alex Tabarrok at Marginal Revolution has a post on the role of computers in improving educational achievement in the young. Ofer Malamud and...