Urbanomics

Thanks to Mostly Economics for pointing to this brilliant lecture by Alan Blinder on the market failure in the demand-supply of good polic...

In a landmark decision, the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) has finally imposed a price band on electricity sales in power...

Chris Blattman points to artist Luke Jerram's glass microbiology works on disease causing viruses and bacteria. Swine flu virus looks...

Market enthusiasts have argued that the financial market does an effective role in efficiently allocating resources to the most productive o...

Getting to govern and actually governing are quite two different things... Clearly, the qualities one needs to get elected to high office in...

David Leonhardt points to one of the more remarkable aspects of the current recession - the lack of decline in wages and even small increase...

Excellent comparison map of public debt across the nations of the world from The Economist (via Economix).