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  Long-time Duke faculty member and friend Geoffrey Brennan died in Canberra, Australia of complications from acute leukemia.   “Geoff” join...

Got to walk to our polling place and exercise my voting privilege. Even Gordon Tullock would have approved of my voting today, since I got t...

This is actually pretty remarkable. There is small (by proportion, though fairly large in number) subculture of wooden puzzle enthusiasts. R...

 This request appeared on " Next Door ," an app for communicating about neighborhood doings and information. Many "shade tree...

CraigsList ad seeks a wedding escort for a future bride's mother-in-law, offering $1,000 for two days work. The   ad , titled "Wed...

 Coordinating the sharing economy can be complicated. That's why there are platforms..... With thanks to the LMM for the find...

 Three weeks ago today, Sept. 5, I paid close attention to the St. Louis Cardinals baseball game against the Brewers. The Cards lost by givi...

 For now, at least, Thailand has WAY "too many" taxis. Parked, they take up a lot of valuable surface area, and create runoff for ...

  Wow.... Pretty harsh, from an insider of Behavioral Economics .  But also this, rather embarrassing and even ironic since the study was ...

 As any reader of KPC knows, we often credit Tyler Cowen ("LeBron") for his occasional, but always insightful, series of posts on ...