Sam Schulman

Michael Hischhorn of Ish Entertainment, makes, I think, cable tv shows.   I’m not into culture, so I’ve never seen a single one of his Ish or VH-1 shows –…

New York magazine’s blog reports today that Timespeople are defending the reporting of Ian Urbina’s story of June 27th: “Behind the Veneer: Doubts about Natural Gas.” The Times doesn’t want…

Tim Worstall of the Adam Smith Institute looked at the 16 countries which, according to the new OECD study “Better Life,” are “happier” than the US, and found the answer:…

Warning: this is depressing. Aditya Chakrabortty, economics leader writer for The Guardian, the most influential English-language newspaper among lefties in the world, wants to explain how the West caused starvation…

The Marcellus Shale Coalition, an industry organization promoting the development of natural gas from the Marcellus Shale formation, draws attention to the figures below from Pennsylvania’s Department of Labor & Industry. Green…

Thanks to Tim Worstall, the summer begins with a good laugh.  It seems that the wind, which bloweth where it listeth, has let down its advocates in the UK badly.…

On May 7, The New York Times reported that the Energy Department had appointed a panel of experts to “to find ways to make hydraulic fracturing, a fast-growing method of extracting…

David Henderson (one of the EconLog bloggers and an economics professor at the Naval Postgraduate School has a problem with Steven Levitt (the “Freakonomics” economist at the U of Chicago).  In…

As always and everywhere, when politicians are unsettled by rising prices, they start by blaming speculators.   Here are two recent posts by economists who point out, delicately or rudely,…

A new National Bureau of Economic Research paper (gated, $5.00) by Casey Rothschild of Middlebury and Florian Scheuer of Stanford looks at the consequences of various tax rates for people…