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Are they then going to night school and get a degree in Econ 101 or Finance?

Leading Senators call for fiscal commission 2009

Everyone learned in Econ 100 that prices are driven as low as possible because of competition among companies, while prices are driven up because of competition among consumers.

A Creative Conspiracy Theory, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

I guess I should tell all my friends in Econ to switch their majors.

Outsourcing, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

The classical exposition of perfect competition taught in Econ 101 is wrong in one very important way: the market is a dynamic entity and never in equilibrium.

Matthew Yglesias » An Influential Idea I Didn’t Get in a Book 2010

Econ is useful to create people who are better for the whole of society -- it doesn't help students as individuals except as entertainment.

High School Curriculum, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Guest blogging at Free Exchange, I answer the charge that Econ is a cult, and end with a hymn of praise: [T] here's nowhere where the grass is greener than in the economics profession.

I Heart Econ, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

From what I learned in Econ I, a price ceiling will produce a shortage and a price floor will create a surplus.

Vaccine Shortage, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Econ is supposed to be numerical and logical, and yet it defies all sorts of things that I call "logic" ...

"It's a oldie, but a goodie." tragic_elegance 2009

This ought to be lesson one or lesson two in Econ 101, but apparently it is not.

Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » More on Incentives 2009

Guest blogging at Free Exchange, I answer the charge that Econ is a cult, and end with a hymn of praise: [T] here's nowhere where the grass is greener than in the economics profession.

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