| Peter Klein | I’ll be in Kansas City tomorrow for the Kauffman Economics Bloggers Forum . Speakers include David Warsh, Paul Romer, Tim Kane, Bob Litan, Donald Marron, and many others. You can watch it live here . Hopefully I’ll get some good ideas for increasing blog revenue, ... Read more

| Peter Klein | Hydrocarbon denier — you know you are one YouTube or it didn’t happen — common response from young people to a report of some event The G-2 — the US and China, jointly controlling the world economy Acluistic – without a clue Break ... Read th ... Read more

| Peter Klein | Why are firms in poor countries less productive than firms in rich countries? Is it lack of technical know-how? Poor infrastructure? Insufficient human capital? Weak intellectual-property protection? Actually, the evidence suggests a more prosaic explanation: financial constrain ... Read more

| Peter Klein | Here are some provocative videos on innovation from Ross Emmett. The series is called “The Constitution of Innovation.” The first three are posted at vimeo: Why “Picking Winners” Robs Us All of a Better Future National Innovation Systems: Too “Nat ... Read more

| Peter Klein | Tune in here at 3:45 EST today for a live broadcast of the ASC session, “The Contributions of Henry G. Manne,” organized by yours  truly. Panelists include me, Alexandre Padilla, Richard Vedder, Thomas DiLorenzo, and Henry Manne. And buy your copy of the Collec ... Read more

| Peter Klein | Ed Leamer famously argued , back in 1983, that empirical economists should do more sensitivity analysis. A new NBER paper by Joshua Angrist and Jörn-Steffen Pischke says that econometric practice has indeed gotten much better, not because of sensitivity analysis, but becaus ... Read more

| Peter Klein | This looks like a fun event. Watch the Big Guys debate the future of the firm, of management, and of management education. It’s Fordham University’s W. Edwards Deming Memorial Conference, 11 May 2010 in New York City. Kudos to Mike Jensen for his willingness to wal ... Read more

| Nicolai Foss | There is little doubt that the resource-based view, in its various guises and manifestations (e.g., see Gavetti & Levinthal’s distinction between “high church” and “low church” approaches to the RBV ), is the dominant perspective in strategic ... Read more

| Nicolai Foss | At least in Europe, academic freedom is under siege.  Politicians justify their meddling with the fact that universities are (largely) financed by taxpayers’ money, and they are assisted in their meddling by a growing class of bureaucrats in ministeries, the EU and inc ... Read more