Purple Pricing For Football Starts Today 1 Aug 2013 | 10:52 am

Buy tickets starting at 10AM at NUSports.com for the games against Ohio State on Oct 5 and Michigan on Nov 16.  We have added bidding this season:  you may submit a bid below the current auction pr...

Larry Summers And Strategic Ambiguity 31 Jul 2013 | 06:39 pm

Israel uses it, Saddam used it, the US uses it w.r.t. Taiwan vs China policy and now Larry Summers is using it – strategic ambiguity. [W]ith a high-profile appointment like for Fed chair or the Supre...

Sen vs Bhagwati: What Is It All About? 24 Jul 2013 | 10:02 pm

Foreign Policy reports: India’s two most prominent economists have never really seen eye-to-eye. Amartya Sen, a Nobel Prize-winner and Harvard professor, believes in public interventions to alleviate...

Congratulations Kate Middleton 23 Jul 2013 | 07:29 pm

“Contestable Markets” And Google Maps 22 Jul 2013 | 09:55 pm

Via Matt Yglesias: [B]efore Apple launched its own iOS Maps app, Google Maps for iOS was already markedly inferior to Google Maps for Android. Not because Google was incapable of producing a great Go...

Looky here, Debraj Ray has a blog! 22 Jul 2013 | 06:49 am

Its called Chhota Pegs and so far has been mostly a chronicle of a visit to Calcutta (his hometown?) where food seems to be the star attraction: Now this is the hard part. The damn thing must cook ab...

Pictures Of Empty Plates 18 Jul 2013 | 09:26 pm

Homemade ravioli with truffles, Rovinj, Istria, Croatia.

Recommendations for Fabulous Fab 16 Jul 2013 | 09:54 pm

Via the NYT: When he left Rwanda that July, Mr. Tourre returned to the United States to enter the Ph.D. program at the University of Chicago. He also joined an intramural soccer team there, the Boots...

Changing the Filibuster 15 Jul 2013 | 11:33 pm

The Democrats are threatening the change the filibuster rules in the Senate. The repercussion may be a significant response by the Republicans when they take control of the Senate. This may be quite s...

The TE Story 8 Jul 2013 | 10:56 am

Martin Osborne, the first Managing Editor of Theoretical Economics has just completed his term and handed the reins to George Mailath.  Martin is the last of the original co-editors to complete his fi...