Date | Author | Topic |
December 17, 2016 |
Douglas Downing |
A Christmas Carol
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December 14, 2016 |
Douglas Downing |
12 days of Christmas: how many gifts?
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December 8, 2016 |
Douglas Downing |
Hitting imports with tariffs: Smoot-Hawley history
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December 6, 2016 |
Douglas Downing |
Recommended reading: The travels of a t-shirt
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December 1, 2016 |
Douglas Downing |
The problem with the "Blame America" view and the "Blame Foreigners" view
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November 29, 2016 |
Douglas Downing |
The problem with a 5-candidate top-two primary
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November 23, 2016 |
Douglas Downing |
Recommended Thanksgiving reading: The Long Winter
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November 22, 2016 |
Douglas Downing |
Can we trust polls to predict elections?
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November 18, 2016 |
Douglas Downing |
Major Winchester and immigration
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November 15, 2016 |
Douglas Downing |
Recommended reading: Presidential Lottery
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November 11, 2016 |
Douglas Downing |
What happens to the economy after January 20?
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November 7, 2016 |
Douglas Downing |
Solving the centrifugal force problem
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October 28, 2016 |
Douglas Downing |
The centrifugal force problem and the presidential nominating system
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October 24, 2016 |
Douglas Downing |
Movie recommendation: Won't Back Down
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October 21, 2016 |
Douglas Downing |
How many people will vote?
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October 19, 2016 |
Douglas Downing |
The rules-in-advance principle and the presidential primary timing problem
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October 18, 2016 |
Douglas Downing |
The presidency is not an entry-level job
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October 13, 2016 |
Douglas Downing |
100 years ago: my grandfather in the trenches
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October 11, 2016 |
Douglas Downing |
Is there hope for tax reform?
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October 6, 2016 |
Douglas Downing |
Price ceilings and waiting in line to get gas
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October 4, 2016 |
Douglas Downing |
Secure schedules for Seattle workers
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September 30, 2016 |
Douglas Downing |
The 1911 revolution in China
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September 26, 2016 |
Douglas Downing |
Movie recommendation: The Last Emperor
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September 22, 2016 |
Kathleen Braden |
Do you know economic geography intuitively? answers
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August 22, 2016 |
Douglas Downing |
The lame duck pardon problem
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August 19, 2016 |
Douglas Downing |
Profit sharing for workers
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August 17, 2016 |
Douglas Downing |
That which is not seen
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August 11, 2016 |
Douglas Downing |
Recommended reading: The Chronicles of Prydain
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August 9, 2016 |
Douglas Downing |
Discussing Citizens United
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August 4, 2016 |
Kathleen Braden |
Do you know principles of economic geography intuitively?
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August 3, 2016 |
Douglas Downing |
The Arrow theorem and strategic misrepresentation voting
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July 31, 2016 |
Douglas Downing |
The Arrow theorem and median voting
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July 25, 2016 |
Douglas Downing |
The Arrow Impossibility theorem of voting part 2: independent issues
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July 22, 2016 |
Douglas Downing |
The Impossible Dream: a perfect voting system and the Arrow theorem
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July 20, 2016 |
Douglas Downing |
What should be done about Citizens United?
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July 14, 2016 |
Douglas Downing |
Choose your own tax rates
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July 11, 2016 |
Douglas Downing |
How do taxes affect incomes?
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July 9, 2016 |
Douglas Downing |
Basel is more than a city in Switzerland: bank capital requirements
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July 5, 2016 |
Douglas Downing |
World governments on July 4, 1775
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June 28, 2016 |
Douglas Downing |
Ethanol fuel cell vehicles?
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June 27, 2016 |
Douglas Downing |
Is Brexit a good idea?
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June 24, 2016 |
Douglas Downing |
The cure for high rent: more housing or fewer people
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June 9, 2016 |
Douglas Downing |
World War I and the lessons of history
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June 7, 2016 |
Douglas Downing |
Poor nations: exploitation or bad decisions?
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June 3, 2016 |
Douglas Downing |
Andrew Jackson and money
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June 1, 2016 |
Douglas Downing |
The end of optional tipping?
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May 27, 2016 |
Douglas Downing |
The presidential veto and the budget
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May 24, 2016 |
Douglas Downing |
Khufu and the great pyramid
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May 20, 2016 |
Douglas Downing |
Do we need academic freedom?
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May 18, 2016 |
Douglas Downing |
CEOs behaving badly
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May 16, 2016 |
Douglas Downing |
Washington state charter schools survive a scare
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May 13, 2016 |
Douglas Downing |
Too small to comply
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May 10, 2016 |
Douglas Downing |
A child's view of bridges and Keynesian economics
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May 6, 2016 |
Douglas Downing |
John Perkins speaks at Seattle Pacific University
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May 4, 2016 |
Douglas Downing |
The Monty Hall problem: common sense sort of vindicated
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May 2, 2016 |
Douglas Downing |
Should the nomination process belong to parties or voters?
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April 29, 2016 |
Douglas Downing |
SPU Social Venture plan competition
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April 26, 2016 |
Douglas Downing |
More oddities in the presidential nominating process
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April 22, 2016 |
Douglas Downing |
Debating a better way to debate
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April 20, 2016 |
Douglas Downing |
Economists and the way people behave part 2
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April 18, 2016 |
Douglas Downing |
Economists and the way people behave: part 1
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April 15, 2016 |
Douglas Downing |
Recommended reading: Pride and profit: Adam Smith and Jane Austen
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April 12, 2016 |
Douglas Downing |
April 12, 1862: the great locomotive chase
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April 8, 2016 |
Douglas Downing |
What can an undervalued company do: share buybacks
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April 6, 2016 |
Douglas Downing |
How to improve bank capital requirements
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April 4, 2016 |
Douglas Downing |
Bank capital requirements part 2: CoCos
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April 1, 2016 |
Douglas Downing |
Bank capital requirements and risk
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March 30, 2016 |
Douglas Downing |
Movie recommendation: The Big Short
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March 16, 2016 |
Douglas Downing |
A little bit of progress for transit in Seattle
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March 14, 2016 |
Douglas Downing |
The serious danger of cyber insecurity
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March 10, 2016 |
Geri Mason |
Producers vs. consumers: enabling productivity (part 2)
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March 7, 2016 |
Geri Mason |
Producers vs. consumers: "Poor" business practices
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March 3, 2016 |
Douglas Downing |
Washington state school funding court cases
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February 29, 2016 |
Douglas Downing |
Julius Caesar and February 29
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February 26, 2016 |
Douglas Downing |
The problem with super Tuesday
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February 24, 2016 |
Douglas Downing |
The problem with random timing of Supreme Court vacancies
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February 22, 2016 |
Douglas Downing |
Deng Xiaoping and modernizing China
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February 18, 2016 |
Douglas Downing |
Theatre recommendation: play about astronomer Henrietta Leavitt
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February 16, 2016 |
Douglas Downing |
Is the economy in good shape or in bad shape?
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February 12, 2016 |
Douglas Downing |
Abraham Lincoln and opportunity:the Morrill act
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February 9, 2016 |
Geri Mason |
Super bowl commercial economics lesson
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February 8, 2016 |
Douglas Downing |
The first emperor of China
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February 5, 2016 |
Douglas Downing |
What's the probability of a tie vote?
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February 1, 2016 |
Douglas Downing |
When 12000 economists get together
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January 29, 2016 |
Douglas Downing |
Bank of Japan news: negative interest rates
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January 27, 2016 |
Douglas Downing |
"Little House" and the take it for granted problem
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January 25, 2016 |
Douglas Downing |
Is there a better way to nominate a president?
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January 21, 2016 |
Douglas Downing |
Movie Recommendation: Brooklyn
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January 19, 2016 |
Douglas Downing |
Dr. Alex Gee at SPU
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January 15, 2016 |
Douglas Downing |
Stock market ups and downs
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January 13, 2016 |
Douglas Downing |
SPU student to sacrifice hair to benefit Iraqi survivors
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January 11, 2016 |
Douglas Downing |
Quiz for socialists
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January 7, 2016 |
Douglas Downing |
How to nominate a president
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