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Daily Archive for April 23rd, 2013

If Woody Would Have Gone Straight to the Police …

Posted in Macroeconomics on Apr 23rd, 2013

I enjoyed this Krugman piece. He’s worried about the long-term unemployed. I am too. A few things. (1) There are some trends to longer term dissociation from the labor market that have nothing to do with this crisis or the weak policy response to it. Would Dr. Krugman agree that we can and should do […]

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The Commons Chronicles, A New Series

Posted in Environment, Property Rights on Apr 23rd, 2013

Each Spring the facilities crew at the U of R tirelessly reseeds all of the sides of sidewalks that have been destroyed by the winter plowing. And our enlightened students and staff totally respect that work. Here is the sidewalk along intercampus parking lot, just across from the library, looking North. You can see the […]

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