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Articles

• The Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change, William Nordhaus
• Governments and Climate Change Issues: The case for rethinking, David Henderson
• Political Bias and War, Matthew O. Jackson and Massimo Morelli
• The Origins and the Evolution of Health Economics: a discipline by itself?, Luis Pina Rebelo
• Science And Ideology In Economic, Political And Social Thought , Claude Hillinger
• Military Conscription and the Socially Optimal Number of Boots on the Ground, Peter Berck, and Jonathan Lipow
• Governing the Governors:A Clinical Study of Central Banks, lars Frisell, Kasper Roszbach and Giancarlo Spagnolo
• Individual Behavior and Group Membership, Gary Charness, Luca Rigotti and Aldo Rustichini
• The Economic Effects of Terrorism: Counterfactual Analysis of the Case of Israel, Persitz, Dotan and Daniel Tsiddon
• Fast-Food Restaurant Advertising on Television and Its Influence on Childhood Obesity, Grossman, Michael, Shin Yi-Chou and Inas Rashad
• Patterns of Income Distribution Among World Regions, Douglas O. Walker

Shorter Articles

• The sun sets early on the American Century, Philip S. Golub
• Economic Incentives and Foreign Insurgents in Iraq, Alan Krueger
• Was Development Assistance a Mistake?, William Easterly
• Differential Impacts of Immigrants on Native Black and White Workers, Paul Ong and Don Mar

The Economics Profession

• The End of Teaching? The Use of Active Technology in the Large Introductory Economics Class, Neil Sheflin
• Pluralism in economics teaching: why and how, Gilles Raveaud
• Political Economy of John Kenneth Galbraith: Glimpses of His Eclectic Academic Life, Andrew F. Brimmer
• The Matthew Effect Defined And Tested For The 100 Most Prolific Economists, Richard S.J. Tol
• Time Allocations and Reward Structures for Academic Economists from 1995-2005: Evidence from Three National Surveys, Cynthia Harter, Michael Watts and William Becker
• Is There an Insider Advantage in Getting Tenure?, Paul Oyer
• Is Economics Becoming Gender Neutral?, Bruce Sacerdote, Alan Durell and Heidi Williams

Interdisciplinary Articles

• Read All About It? What Happens after a Technology Shock. Michelle Alexopoulos
• Democracy and Foreign Education, Spilimbergo, Antonio
• How to Organize Crime, Heski Bar-Isaac and Mariagiovanna Baccara
• Pluralist Integration in the Economic and Social Sciences, Francois Eymard-Duvernay, Olivier Favereau, Andre Orlean, Robert Salais, Laurent Thevenot
• Old, Poor, and Untreated? Demand for Antidepressants Among Older Women in the United States, Virginia Wilcox-Gok
• Answers to Eleven Questions about Economic Anthropology, Keith Hart
• Institutionalized Pollution Havens, Matthew Cole and Per Frederiksson
• Is It Really Safe Sex? Analyzing the Causal Link between Contraceptive Use and Crime Rates, Nicholas J. Hill
• The Effects of School Desegregation on Crime, Jens Ludwig, Byron Lutz and David Weiner

The Economy

• 20 Most Valuable Companies
• Beyond the Age of Petroleum, Michael T. Klare
• The Dollar and the Current Account Deficit: How Much Should We Worry? Michael Mussa
• Exchange Rates and Trade Balances under the Dollar Standard: The Transfer Problem Reconsidered, Ronald McKinnon

Economics in the News

• The Prospects for Homo economicus, Michael Shermer, Scientific American
• Post-Autistic Economics, David Bollier, On The Commons
• Economic Indoctrination, Gilles Raveaud, Adbusters
• Anti-Mankiw, Greg Mankiw, Greg Mankiw's Blog

Reviews

• The Conscience of a Liberal (Paul Krugman),
  - reviewed by Matthew Yglesias
  - reviewed by David M. Kennedy
  - reviewed by Peter Beinart
• How Rich Countries Got Rich and Why Poor Countries Stay Poor (Erik Reinert), reviewed by Jayati Ghosh
• The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What can be done about it ( Paul Collier), reviewed by Charles Abugre

Comedy

• Principles of economics, translated
• Ali G - Economics and Selling Stocks High

Economists' Blogs

• Dean Baker
• Brad DeLong
• Paul Krugman
• Greg Mankiw
• Marginal Revolution
• Mark Thoma
• Dani Rodrik
• Naked Capitalism
• Vox
• 2UBH

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