Daily Archives: October 9, 2006

Nobel Prize

Goes to Edmund Phelps. Here is a typically thoughtful analysis of tax rates and labour participation, in an article that warns of the dangers of economists pursuing ideas incompletely and without sufficient evidence. His name didn’t appear on most lists. … Continue reading

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Incentives to learn

I read in this morning’s Metro (yes, I admit it) that Boris Johnson is proposing that students be given cash incentives by universities to learn. This, he suggests, would encourage greater efforts on behalf of the students, and also limit … Continue reading

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