This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
Archives
An Easy Derivation of the Volume of Spheres Formula — Monday August 16, 2010
A Simpler Proof of the Bolzano-Weierstrass Theorem — Tuesday July 20, 2010
New Study of the Kerry-Lieberman "American Power Act" — Tuesday June 29, 2010
The Linear Algebra View of Calculus: Taking a Derivative with a Matrix — Wednesday April 21, 2010
A Simple Way of Solving Exact Ordinary Differential Equations — Tuesday April 13, 2010
A More Elegant View of the Correlation Coefficient — Saturday March 13, 2010
Deriving the Logistic Population Growth Model — Saturday March 13, 2010
Converting Quarterly Data into Monthly Using Cubic Spline Interpolation — Wednesday January 20, 2010
The Linear Algebra View of the Fibonacci Sequence — Friday October 16, 2009
New Study of the Waxman-Markey Cap-and-Trade Bill — Wednesday September 30, 2009
Deriving the Poisson Distribution from the Binomial Distribution — Monday September 14, 2009
A Simple Explanation of Why Lagrange Multipliers Works — Friday August 21, 2009
Deriving the Trigonometric Functions Without Geometry — Thursday June 18, 2009
A Sewing-Circle Method for Estimating Pi — Wednesday June 3, 2009
An Easy Way to Remember the Taylor Series Expansion — Friday May 29, 2009
Some Interesting Mathematics of the Rule of 72 — Tuesday May 26, 2009
A Barroom Method for Estimating Pi — Monday May 11, 2009
Walking Through the Bolzano-Weierstrass Theorem — Monday May 11, 2009
Using Eigenvectors to Solve Dynamical Linear Systems — Sunday April 19, 2009
The Linear Algebra View of Least-Squares Regression — Friday April 10, 2009
New Study of Household Burdens from a U.S. Cap-and-Trade System — Monday March 16, 2009
Deriving Tax Incidence from Price Elasticities — Saturday December 13, 2008
New Study of the "Gang of Ten" Energy Bill's Section 199 Repeal — Wednesday September 10, 2008
Input-Output Tables Derived from BEA Data: Available Now — Saturday August 9, 2008
Estimating Price Elasticity of Gasoline: A How-To Guide — Friday August 1, 2008
New report on tax burdens and government spending by age groups — Monday June 4, 2007
New York Sun on fiscal incidence study — Friday April 20, 2007
Director's law in tennessee — Wednesday April 18, 2007
Podcast interview on fiscal incidence study — Tuesday April 17, 2007
New survey on U.S. tax opinions — Thursday April 12, 2007
New fiscal incidence working paper — Thursday March 22, 2007
New paper on federal taxes by city, county and U.S. congressional district — Thursday March 22, 2007
Working paper on modeling federal tax burdens by narrow geographic areas — Thursday March 22, 2007
problems with illinois' gross receipts tax plan — Wednesday March 7, 2007
An idea for estimating payroll taxes by narrow geographic areas — Monday February 12, 2007
Michigan Public Radio on tax credits for film production crews — Thursday January 11, 2007
Piece on the alternative minimum tax by congressional district — Tuesday January 9, 2007
Paper on the economics of gross receipts taxes — Monday December 4, 2006
Op-ed on cigarette tax regressivity and social costs of smoking — Saturday October 28, 2006
Tax exporting and rental car taxes — Wednesday September 27, 2006
Minneapolis Fed on tax incentives for film companies — Sunday September 10, 2006
USA Today on property taxes — Friday August 25, 2006
Doing the math on gross receipts taxes — Wednesday August 16, 2006
Denver Post on soda obesity taxes — Friday July 21, 2006
Op-ed on gas tax holidays — Thursday July 20, 2006
New podcast on tax policy — Tuesday July 18, 2006
Economic vs. legal tax incidence — Friday June 9, 2006
Survey of public opinion on tax policy — Tuesday April 18, 2006
Tax burdens and the rental car industry — Tuesday April 18, 2006
Op-ed on the U.S. tax burden — Saturday April 15, 2006
Op-ed on tax attitudes survey — Saturday April 15, 2006
Smoking pollution permits: a market-based smoking ban? — Friday April 14, 2006
Interview on tax reform — Tuesday January 31, 2006
the not-so-charitable deduction — Tuesday November 22, 2005
endless tax reform loop — Sunday October 23, 2005
Incredible shrinking income tax base — Wednesday September 21, 2005
Backgrounder on the alternative minimum tax — Tuesday May 24, 2005
Economic justice in religious discussion — Saturday April 30, 2005
The Last Lecture: Paul Heyne's "The Moral Critics of Capitalism" — Monday February 14, 2005
The economics of punctuality — Wednesday January 19, 2005
op-ed on california's business climate — Tuesday October 19, 2004
Do deficits matter? — Monday September 20, 2004
then and now — Thursday September 16, 2004
op-ed on presidential tax plans — Tuesday August 24, 2004
The economics of Australia's "baby bonus" — Thursday August 5, 2004
fun with the L.A. Times — Monday July 19, 2004
Radio interview — Tuesday July 13, 2004
Thinking about prostitution — Thursday May 27, 2004
At what price taxis? — Thursday May 27, 2004
The baby factory — Thursday May 27, 2004
Guest post: Galton's fallacy — Thursday May 27, 2004
No such thing as a free-market economist? — Thursday May 27, 2004
Are subsidies the price of deregulation? — Thursday May 27, 2004
Who cares about regulation? — Thursday May 27, 2004
Why do gas prices rise quickly, but fall slowly? — Thursday May 27, 2004
Advertising as antitrust defense — Thursday May 27, 2004
Commerce as culture — Thursday May 27, 2004
Manufacturing decline as self-fulfillment — Monday March 29, 2004
Growing new property rights — Sunday March 28, 2004
The economy as persuasion — Wednesday March 24, 2004
Marketplace as organism — Wednesday March 24, 2004
Not your father's economics — Tuesday March 23, 2004
Do not enter — Tuesday March 23, 2004
Why We Will Never Run Out of Oil — Friday March 19, 2004
The cultural wealth of nations — Friday March 19, 2004
Making data safe for non-geeks — Wednesday March 17, 2004
St. Patrick's Day Economics — Wednesday March 17, 2004
Of Honey Bees and Apple Orchards — Wednesday March 17, 2004
The benefits of falling birthrates — Monday March 15, 2004
Trickle-down economics — Monday March 15, 2004
Enron: Death by Free Market — Friday March 1, 2002
Order Without the State: The Possibility of Market-Provided Law and Order — Thursday June 8, 2000
The Socialist Economic Calculation Debate and the Austrian Critique of Central Planning — Wednesday May 20, 1998