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The Rent Is Too Damn HighA polemic on high rents and housing costs from the prominent political thinker and influential blogger.Read More
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New York Review of Books, May 3, 2012
...anything like this sort of complicated reasoning. And political scientists in general have scorn for what Slate’s Matthew Yglesias calls the pundit’s fallacy, the belief on the part of all too many political commentators that their pet issues are,...
Slate Magazine, April 25, 2012
...9: Inequality and Tyler Cowen’s Toilet From: Matthew Yglesias 8: One Billion Chinese Aren’t Going to Turn Bourgeois All at Once From: Timothy Noah 7: Suddenly Poor Countries Matter to the US Economy From: Matthew Yglesias 6...
Slate Magazine, April 23, 2012
...Matthew Yglesias is Slate's business and economics correspondent. Before joining the magazine he worked for ThinkProgress, the Atlantic, TPM Media, and the American Prospect. His first book, Heads in the...
New York Review of Books, April 19, 2012
...such analyses, although some journalists have written quite sympathetically of the argument that economic fundamentals count (for example, Matthew Yglesias and Ezra Klein, probably the two most prominent young journalists on the liberal side). A recent...
Ebook lawsuit: The DOJ is suing Apple for fixing e-book prices. It shouldnt bother. - Slate Magazine
Slate Magazine, April 11, 2012
...fight to protect the right of publishers, rather than vendors like Amazon, to set e-book prices. Last month, Matthew Yglesias argued that even if Apple did fix prices with publishers, it’s unlikely to have much of an effect on competition in the book...
Care2, March 28, 2012
...finally available in digital format is equivalent to the Beatles showing up on iTunes, says Gans. Even more, Matthew Yglesias declares on Slate that Rowling has “just transformed book publishing.” It’s not just that you can now download Harry...
Yahoo!, March 15, 2012
...the 92nd Street Y, Girls Write Now, and the PEN American Center. [GalleyCat] RELATED: On collusion At Slate, Matthew Yglesias...
Energy Bulletin, March 12, 2012
...demand… blaming speculators rather than the underlying geopolitics is a perverse form of shooting the messenger." - Matthew Yglesias, Slate The Briefs (clips from recent Peak Oil News dailies are indicated by date and item #) Europe's debt crisis and...
New York Times, March 11, 2012
...South Bronx. In his provocative new e-book, aptly titled The Rent Is Too Damn High, the Slate columnist Matthew Yglesias points to, among other things, all the zoning restrictions that keep New York and other cities from growing taller and accommodating...
New York Times, March 10, 2012
...in an undesirable part of the South Bronx. In his provocative new e-book, aptly titled the Slate columnist Matthew Yglesias points to, among other things, all the zoning restrictions that keep New York and other cities from growing taller and...
Deseret Morning News, March 9, 2012
...of social and economic trends over the decades that totally swamp tweaks in the tax code," said Matthew Yglesias, a writer for Slate. Because children are financially costly, of course a subsidy will make a difference to parents on the margin, Yglesias...
Yahoo! News, March 9, 2012
...growth," but "it's not nearly fast enough to return the economy to full employment," says Matthew Yglesias at Slate. "For that, we'd need a nice string of months in the 300,000-400,000 range." Remember, the Labor Department still says that 12.8 million...
The Week Magazine, March 9, 2012
...growth," but "it's not nearly fast enough to return the economy to full employment," says Matthew Yglesias at Slate. "For that, we'd need a nice string of months in the 300,000-400,000 range." Remember, the Labor Department still says that 12.8 million...
Washington Post, March 9, 2012
...than ever. That means housing construction in the places where demand is highest and homes are most expensive." Matthew Yglesias in Bloomberg View. @ryanavent: Urban density is like duct tape. 5) Technology is driving inequality. "It is worth...
