Game Theory and selecting students for school

The New York Times has a good article on how economists used Game Theory to improve New York City's school selection process.

World Bank does Behavioral Economics

The new World Bank Development Report looks at Behavioral Economics applied to economic development.

Quantitative Easing Graphic

Good graphic from Mint.com about how Quantitative Easing Works.

John Taylor - Two Sides of the Taylor Rule

John Taylor has a good blog post about the Taylor Rule and how it is about both inflation and output - and that the output part has broken down.

QE is dead.... Long live QE

The Upshot column in the New York Times has a good summary of QE - with charts.

Haircuts and Price Descrimination

The Atlantic Monthly has a good article about price discrimination in men and women's haircuts.

Going Dutch on Public Pensions

The New York Times has an article about how the Dutch run their public pensions - honestly funding each generation.

Economic Analysis of Casinos

The Oregon Office of Economic Analysis has released a study on the economic prospects from casinos that analyzes the short and long run economic prospects for casinos and the effects on local tax revenues.  It has a lot of good graphics and could be useful in fostering a more sophisticated discussion about the choice of using casinos to foster economic growth.

Apps and Data Mining

Why do companies push people to use Apps instead of their web page - to get information about you.  Marketplace has the full rundown.

Managing Money is Like Getting in Shape

The Week Magazine has a article that compares saving money to getting in shape.

Why are Economic Models Bad at Predicting the Future

Mark Thoma has a good piece at CBS news on why economic models are such poor predicters of the future.

Lifestyle Inflation

The Week has an article on lifestyle inflation or how spending increases with income - how middle class gets into such debt.

Evidence of Sticky Wages

Bloomberg has a good article that explains sticky wages in connection with data from the recent downturn to show evidence of sticky wages.  The article also has this nice chart:

Benefits of a Cashless Economy

The Economist has a good article about the benefits of getting rid of physical cash. A lot of good economic concepts with numbers are in the article.

Five Charts on Employment Numbers

The Upshot blog at the New York Times has a good set of charts to show the explain how the employment situation has been changing.