Jeffrey Wagner (RIT): Plato’s Republic and liberal economic education for the twenty-first century. From The Economist, a review of Economic Facts and Fallacies by Thomas Sowell. What have economists learned in the last year? Tyler Cowen investigates. A rebel economist: Remembering Andrew Glyn. A review of The Mind of the Market: Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans, and Other Tales from Evolutionary Economics by Michael Shermer (and an excerpt); and a look at why people believe weird things about money. Running numbers: James Surowiecki on the uncertainty of unemployment statistics. A look at when taxpayers ignore less visible taxes.
