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13 Feb 2008, 3:17 pm
Well, there is website called Intrade that, as described in David Leonhardt's "Economic Scene" column in today's New York Times, permits members to "buy and sell contracts whose price is tied to real-world events. [read post]
4 Feb 2008, 10:30 am
New York Times: Closing Income Gap Tops Obama's Agenda for Economic Change, by David Leonhardt Tax Scheme Is Blamed for Damage to Artifacts, by Matthew L. [read post]
2 Jan 2008, 10:29 pm
Leonhardt notes Clinton's proposals to use complex incentives to prompt certain behavior (e.g., matching tax credits to encourage low income families to save). [read post]
30 Dec 2007, 6:59 am
Leonhardt and Gov. [read post]
26 Dec 2007, 6:48 am
IN THE NEW YORK TIMES, David Leonhardt argues for higher taxes on booze: Each of the three taxes is now effectively 33 percent lower than it was in 1992. [read post]
30 Oct 2007, 10:59 am
Leonhardt passed the lie detector, and his story is checking out. [read post]
29 Oct 2007, 6:36 pm
The O's posted the lengthy draft report on the state investigation into the hot pants of Multnomah County Sheriff Bernie Giusto. [read post]
4 Oct 2007, 7:14 am
" In a review of the book -- "Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart," by Law Professor Ian Ayres -- that David Leonhardt wrote for the September 16, 2007 issue of The New York Times Sunday Book Review, Leonhardt accused Ayres of including in the book "two sentences about a doctor in Atlanta that were nearly identical to two sentences I wrote in this newspaper last year. [read post]
4 Oct 2007, 7:04 am
Consider the following passages (noted first in a NY Times book review by David Leonhardt and also discussed in the Yale Daily News article, from which I have borrowed the quotations---again with attribution).Leonhardt wrote: "Their son had been sick for months, with fevers that just would not go away. [read post]
29 Sep 2007, 9:02 pm
The September 30, 2007 New York Times has a very interesting story entitled "The New Affirmative Action" by reporter David Leonhardt. [read post]
26 Sep 2007, 4:06 am
Leonhardt notes that the "details of his plan â€â [read post]
17 Sep 2007, 6:07 pm
Here is the key passage in Leonhardt's review:"For all its successes ... statistical analysis continues to face tremendous skepticism and even animosity. [read post]
6 Jul 2007, 9:54 am
LANDSBURGReviewed by DAVID LEONHARDT
"A columnist for Slate joins the fraternity of authors using economics to explain everything. [read post]
6 Jul 2007, 8:12 am
The article was based largely on an academic paper by another economist, Michael Kremer, theorizing that the spread of AIDS could be slowed in England if everybody with fewer than about 2.25 partners got around a bit moreThe link is to a book review by David Leonhardt, who doesn't think much of what he calls the the economists' "imperialist movement" -- intruding their analysis into all sorts of human affairs:[The book is] short on the nuance that comes from real human… [read post]
3 Jul 2007, 3:16 pm
In an otherwise fine article, NYTimes business columnist David Leonhardt managed to irk me by declaring in passing that "tolls are really a kind of tax. [read post]
30 May 2007, 2:34 pm
Leonhardt’s conclusion: “The most common complaint about him, at least from other journalists, is that his program combines factual reporting with editorializing. [read post]
30 May 2007, 8:55 am
According to Leonhardt, a "60... [read post]
30 May 2007, 8:39 am
Today, David Leonhardt's column in the NYTimes raises significant questions about Lou Dobbs' reporting on immigration. [read post]
25 Apr 2007, 6:59 am
Leonhardt talks about families feeling more stretched, which he relates this to inequality of income. [read post]
12 Apr 2007, 3:05 am
This related David Leonhardt article that addresses a number of the issues, including the following observation: Clearly, there are benefits to owning a house beyond the financial, like the comfort of knowing you can stay as long as you want or can fix the roof without permission. [read post]
