The 40-Year-Old Freshman

At 10:00 this morning I handed in my final paper for my Money & Banking class, and with that was finished with my Economics degree. Af...

Most economists don't expect automation to cause mass unemployment. Their argument is that, just as it has done for the last few hundred...

I haven't even finished my time at UT and I'm already starting to miss it. I've come to understand that it's an incredible...

Classes for Spring 2019, which will be the final semester of my economics studies, start next week. By the end of the semester I'll be 4...

So, you might ask, what is it that I propose to do with all of this knowledge of economics once I finish my studies in the Spring? Well, I h...

I just registered for classes for my last semester at UT. I have mixed feelings about that. On the plus side, I only have one more requi...

Once you stop, getting started again is the hardest part. That’s just  physics . So let’s get started again. We’re now almost halfway thro...

It looks like I managed to write exactly one blog post last semester. Huh. Let's try to improve upon that. Last semester ended up much...

I've reversed my earlier decision to move this blog to Medium and will instead keep it here at Blogger. No school like the old school, ...

I come from the technology world, which regularly reinvents itself. 30 years ago, the personal computer dominated the industry. 20 years ago...

(Apologies to Peaches & Herb .) Well, I've been granted readmission to UT, so that's good. My registration period opens in a c...

Seven years ago I put my economics studies on hold to start a company, which I wound up getting funded, growing, and ultimately selling. ...

I just removed Greg Mankiw's and Paul Krugman's blogs from my feed reader's "Economics" section. While both of them ar...

I have a lot to say about this but not enough time right now to say it. So this post is a placeholder for a future discussion. But here'...

I just got the email from the organizers of Startup-Onomics: The Behavioral Economics Summit for Startups : At this time we have sent out th...

Son 1 has fixed my blog problem. I'm going to make him a carrot cake. Comparative and absolute advantage.... Sun Jul 17 08:54:28 via T...

From Business Insider , JEREMY GRANTHAM: We're Headed For A Disaster Of Biblical Proportions Specifically, Grantham says, the phenomenon...

From How, and When, to Make a Decision in The Economist's More Intelligent Life magazine: If all our decisions are so influenced by ex...

Tyler Cowan, following up on last summer's discussion of Zero Marginal Product workers (ZMP's, as he calls them), offers a proof p...

Has it really been more than seven months since I last posted to this blog? Yikes! Well, at least I have a good excuse: I've spun a new...

From The X Factor of Economics: People : “But there’s a good reason that human irrationality isn’t part of the standard economic models, and...

I'm taking this semester off from my economics studies to devote more time and thought to my business , and our new product in particul...

From: Kerry A Pasquale <kerry@austin.utexas.edu> Subject: INFORMATIONAL: ECO 351K Cancelled for Fall Date: August 13, 2010 12:07:0...

This ad for UT's MBA program is probably truer than it was intended to be:

There's an interesting debate going on over at Tyler Cowan's Marginal Revolution blog about Zero marginal product workers . Here...

The Black Swan author Nassim Taleb makes so secret of his disdain for economics and most economists. Engineers can compute but not define,...

Last week I sent this email to Dr. Watson regarding my ECO 420K grade: Dr. Watson- I'm happy and relieved to see on the registrar's ...

UT uses an online system called BlackBoard that lets instructors post assignments, grades, course documents, etc. Blackboard now has an iPad...

I'll be collecting my thoughts about this course and posting them later. But for now, I'll just say I'm glad it's over and t...

I had planned on taking statistics next semester, but after micro theory I need something more interesting to keep me engaged. So instead of...