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Is Your State's Highest Paid Employee a Football Coach? 26 Aug 2013 | 11:06 pm
The sports news site Deadspin has an infographic with all 50 states and their highest paid public employee. In a lot of states it is the football or basketball coach at the big public university, whil...
Affirmative Action for the Ugly 26 Aug 2013 | 09:20 pm
The Boston Globe devotes a long article to the issue: Other ideas, based on traditional legal and economic remedies for unfairness, can seem a bit utopian (or Orwellian): Hamermesh has proposed "affir...
Yale President's Address to Freshmen 26 Aug 2013 | 09:16 pm
The new president of Yale, Peter Salovey, has posted the text of his address to the college's incoming freshmen, under the headline "Yale and the American Dream." He said: You, Class of 2017, bring yo...
The Case for Stanley Fischer 26 Aug 2013 | 08:28 pm
The Washington Post reports that "It's a quietly voiced frustration among current and former central bankers that the candidate best qualified to lead the Federal Reserve isn't even being considered b...
John Stossel on Australia's Failed Minimum Wage 26 Aug 2013 | 08:15 pm
John Stossel looks at the evidence on Australia's minimum wage: In a 2004 study published in the Australian Economic Review, economist Andrew Leigh looked at what happened after Western Australia incr...
Vedder on the Federal College Aid Explosion 23 Aug 2013 | 06:21 pm
Richard Vedder of Ohio University and the American Enterprise Institute writes at Bloomberg View: "According to College Board data, total federal student financial assistance programs totaled $56.8 bi...
Always More Compliance Officers 21 Aug 2013 | 06:17 pm
The Wall Street Journal has a report on a report commissioned by Bloomberg L.P. after its journalists were found to be using Bloomberg-terminal customer data to assist their newsgathering: the company...
Driving While Texting or Talking 21 Aug 2013 | 05:53 pm
As state after state outlaws driving while texting, they may want to consider this, from the Huffington Post: from 1994 to 2011, mobile phone subscriptions increased more than 1,200 percent, from 24 m...
Why College Is So Expensive 20 Aug 2013 | 05:59 pm
The Chronicle of Higher Education has published the results of the 2013 faculty salary survey of the American Association of University Professors. Columbia tops the list with an average salary for fu...
Nobel Laureate Economist Phelps on Capitalism and Corporatism 20 Aug 2013 | 05:25 pm
A new book by Nobel laureate economist Edmund Phelps, Mass Flourishing: How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge, and Change, is the subject of my column this week. Please check it out at New...
