This article presents a reexamination and extension of Nardinelli and Simon's (NS) work on the racial discrimination in the market for the Topps 1970 series of baseball cards. This article compares the descriptive statistics and regression results NS reported using data as of the end of the 1988...

From 1995 to 2003 over 700 educators from the former Soviet Union and Central and Eastern Europe participated in a programme that trained them to provide services similar to those offered by centres for economic education affiliated with universities and colleges in the United States. This paper...

This article describes a model that can be used to introduce basic economic concepts to children at the K-8 grade levels and lay a foundation for the later study of markets and prices. The model focuses on non-market environments, such as homes and schools, where people first experience economic...

By the beginning of the 21st century economics had been included among the subjects for which 49 states had adopted mandatory academic standards or guidelines. A first-time assessment of 12th grade students in economics was scheduled by the National Assessment of Education Progress for 2006....

The collateral source rule is a common law norm that permits recovery of accident-related damages from both the victim’s insurer and the injurer. Many jurisdictions have modified the rule through statutory reform during the last twenty-five years. Forensic economists in assessing damages need...

According to Posnerian law and economics, common law (i.e., judge-made law) tends to promote efficiency. Public choice teaches that statutory (legislated) law need have no such efficiency property because, unlike appointed judges, legislators are subject to short election cycles and are beholden...