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When New Immigrants First Go to an American Supermarket

Writer and Poet Roya Hakakian arrived in the United States from Iran in 1985.

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Adam Smith: On the Disposition to Admire the Rich and Neglect the Poor

Adam Smith is often treated in popular discussions as a fundamentalist believer in the superiority of markets, and nothing more.

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Academic Economists vs. Policy Economists

Rachel Glennerster is a professor of economics at the University of Chicago, which is more-or-less the dictionary definition of an academic economist.

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“Economics is the Social Science of Love”

Here’s a comment from Lant Pritchett in an interview last June.

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A Brief History of Widgets

For economists, “widgets” are the example of a hypothetical product you use when you don’t want to get specific.

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Parents of Economics PhDs: Their Educational Background

It’s not a big shock that those who get a PhD tend to have parents who also had a higher level of education.

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No, Fed: Supply Construction, Not Demand Destruction

Everyone loves to dunk on the Federal Reserve (Fed).