The Greg Clark Symposium Investing

The Greg Clark Symposium

Earlier I wrote “Greg Clark may well be the most important social scientist of the 21st century.” Thus, the symposium in Econ Journal Watch on Clark’s new but perhaps not forthcoming book is very welc...

October 05, 2026
China fact of the day Investing

China fact of the day

With surrogacy illegal in China, an industry of agencies, consultants and fertility clinics has emerged to connect clients with women overseas willing to carry their children. While there is no data o...

October 05, 2026
Crime in Covid Times Economy

Crime in Covid Times

What caused the historically unique volatility in American homicides since 2019, driven by gun homicides? While there is no shortage of candidate explanations, a coherent understanding has been elusiv...

October 05, 2026
My blurb for Ethan Mollick’s new book Economy

My blurb for Ethan Mollick’s new book

I was asked to blurb it for the AIs, and so this is what they got: Humans like those who appreciate them, and who are not too afraid of them.  Perhaps the AIs are somewhat similar?  Well, my friendly ...

October 04, 2026
Does Costco Cause Cancer? Investing

Does Costco Cause Cancer?

In December 2025, researchers led by Yazan Alwadi at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health published a paper in Environmental Health that claimed to find that cancer incidence increased for peop...

October 04, 2026
Marital sorting by class and race Banking

Marital sorting by class and race

Americans rarely marry outside their race or class group, a pattern with well-documented implications for inequality and intergenerational mobility. Limited exposure may partly explain these low inter...

October 04, 2026