Walker Economics Blog

With the AP Exam and Graduation approaching, I will not be posting on the blog for awhile (maybe until August). Here are links to a few very...

Economist Austan Goolsbee has an article in the NY Times that looks at the economics of reality shows. He starts with a question of why th...

Here is a list of predictions of what the world will be like in the year 2000, made for a magazine in the year 1900. It is a really intere...

Benjamin Edwards spent a day driving to as many Wal-Marts as he could (he went to 8) and writing down where each product he picked up came ...

Economist Alex Tabarrok argues that the way to explain why incomes are becoming less equal in the world and in the United States is to look...

Here is the abstract of a new paper by Greg Mankiw: Should the income tax system include a tax credit for short taxpayers and a tax surcharg...

There is high demand for taxi cabs in NYC when it is raining, of obvious reasons. However, taxi drivers tend to work fewer hours on rainy da...

At the beginning of the year, there was a test question that asked you to discuss the economics behind the decision to speed on the highway....

There is a new blog that discusses teaching economics through music . They take music from popular song lyrics and then ask questions on the...

In a recent NY Times article, Bruce Bartlett discusses how the ideas of supply-side economics have become more and more popular . However, h...

There are two posts on Free Exchange that give another perspective on why CEOs are paid so much. The first discusses how CEOs may not have b...

In recent years, there has been a lot of criticism concerning the salaries of Fortune 500 CEOs. The graph below from The Economist shows ho...