More Blogging?

One of my more prominent blog readers was at Harvard recently, giving an off-the-record talk to some students. He told them that he found reading my views useful and said that I should blog more often. A couple students in the audience did indeed pass along the message, as requested.

Sorry to disappoint, but more frequent blogging is not in my future. I have a full life: classes to teach, students to advise, articles to write, textbooks to revise, kids to raise, and a wife who still enjoys spending time with me (within limits).

I will continue to use this site to pass along links for articles of interest, weigh in when I have something to get off my chest, and flog my favorite textbook. But I am too busy with other things to produce the voluminous output of some of my more prolific colleagues in the blogosphere.

Or maybe I am just too lazy.

Cowen on Insurance Mandates

Tyler in today's Times.

A Defense of Insider Trading

From GMU economist Donald Boudreaux.

How Harvard Economists Invest

From today's Crimson.

Intellectual Property Factoid

The long arm of copyright:

Royalties from The Great Gatsby totaled only $8,397 during Fitzgerald’s lifetime. Today Gatsby is read in nearly every high school and college and regularly produces $500,000 a year in Scottie’s trust for her children.

FYI, Scottie is Fitzgerald's daughter.

Source.



Update: A reader points out that many economists are skeptical of such long copyrights.

From the CEA Chair

Testimony on the Economic Outlook.

Blog Map

If you are a blog reader who teaches introductory economics using my favorite textbook, you might be interested in checking out the blog map, which has just been updated in response to user feedback.

Here is how it works. Go to the blog map and click on the chapter you are teaching. The blog map will give you a list of recent blog posts related to the material in that chapter. If that is not enough for you, click on "Archived Posts" and you will get even more. You can use this resources to find recent examples in the news to help spark class discussion.

The chapter numbers refer to the complete version of my text, Principles of Economics. If you are using one of the versions of the book with only a subset of the chapters, the chapter numbers may be different, but the chapter titles are the same. So you should not have much trouble finding what you need.