EconomicPolicyFilter: I'm reading The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein. It's making me angry, but I don't know whether it's making me justifiably angry. Is she right? Or is she terribly biased and distorting the facts? [more inside]
posted on Jan 25, 2008 - 17 answers

Looking for an old newsmagazine story about Britain. [more inside]
posted on Dec 10, 2007 - 1 answers

When I was younger, I read a sociology textbook trying to find out why sociology was treated as a separate discipline and how it differs fundamentally from the other social sciences. I learned a lot about Weber and Durkheim, but I still don't get it. Can you help? [more inside]
posted on Sep 11, 2007 - 12 answers

How do I find out the value of a dollar in a given year? [more inside]
posted on May 4, 2007 - 11 answers

Looking for old economic articles... [more inside]
posted on Jan 9, 2007 - 7 answers

Help me understand Honduras. [more inside]
posted on Jan 25, 2006 - 7 answers

I am looking for a resource, preferably online, that will give me historical real estate sales data for a particular city. Ideally I would like to see the average sales price by month from the year 1974 until the present. Any ideas?
posted on Dec 18, 2004 - 5 answers

Can anyone point me to a nonpartisan economic study of tax cuts, the theory behind their effects on the economy, and the history of the economic effects of pre-21st century tax cuts?
posted on Mar 26, 2004 - 1 answers