The Price of Bankers
If you want to be a banker you should probably stay out of Phoenix. According to the latest quarterly survey of employment and wages by county. Of the 10 largest counties in the country, Maricopa is...
View ArticleThe price of good teachers
Parents, principals, education experts all seem to agree that teacher quality is the single most important determinant of a child’s education, considerably more important than class size. The Obama...
View ArticleShould you work for free?
Remember when Google asked illustrators to design some cool new art for its browser, Chrome, for free? Some artists were swayed by the argument that exposure on Google amounted to valuable advertising...
View ArticleThe value of education
My colleague David Leonhardt at Economix analyzes new government data on pay trends for 2010. It was a pretty bad year for everybody. But the statistics underscore that an education remains as...
View ArticleThe price of taxis
Felix Salmon has an interesting post on the price of taxicab medallions in New York City: a perfect illustration of the increasingly lopsided distribution of rewards between the owners of capital and...
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