Jonathan Haskel's Blog

1. Michael Lewis, of Liar's Poker fame writes and tells you that Morgan Kelly saw it all. 2. Morgan Kelly,  professor of economics at...

1  Supply and demand.  For those who doubt that supply reponds to market prices, read about the low supply of housing with very strong rent ...

1. Via Tyler Cowan, markets in everything : Osama Bin Laden example. 2. Who is more brilliant on the history of innovation than Joel Mokyr...

1. The price elasticity of demand for oil: is pretty inelastic. goo.gl/Et060. 2. Price discrimination: Ticketmaster to do its own touting....

A recent crop where experts might be wrong..... 1. On the small matter of world poverty and hunger, here . 2. On high speed rail links in...

I’m addressing the Cambridge Science Festival this Wednesday, in the company of Dr Evan Harris and Dr David Cleevely, chaired by Tim Radfo...

Daughter 1, aged 8, reports that the 4 year olds wanted to do the Wizard of Oz for school.  They phone the performing rights people, she say...

Assorted links. 1. Barry Eichengreen on the disaster that is the Irish bail-out, via Brad de Long. 2. Martin Wolf on the future of the ...

For those who doubt the central economic assumption that agents react to incentives you need look no futher than this extract from an articl...

The spending cuts dialogue seems to have moved today away from the numerator (the deficit) to the denominator (GDP).  Hooray.  Let’s not for...