David J. Deming

2 months ago | oklahomaconstitution.com | David J. Deming |Steve Byas |Tim Bakamjian

President Trump won re-election handily last November, sweeping every swing state and achieving an impressive 312 to 226 margin of victory in the Electoral College. Trump also won the popular vote. Republicans retained a narrow majority in the House of Representatives and secured control of the US Senate with a 53-seat majority.

Oct 24, 2024 | oklahomaconstitution.com | David J. Deming |Steve Byas

It’s been said that conservatives view leftists as people with bad ideas, while leftists view conservatives as bad people, period. My personal experiences on social media reinforce this. Any attempt to engage a leftist in a dialogue is futile. There is no bridging the chasm. Not only are leftists unable to construct arguments, they fail to even grasp what an argument is. Logic and facts escape them. It’s not that they have bad ideas – they don’t have ideas at all.

Oct 16, 2024 | fordhaminstitute.org | David J. Deming

On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, David Deming, a professor of Political Economy at the Harvard Kennedy School, joins Mike and David to discuss his article in The Atlantic arguing that it’s not enough for governments and the private sector to eliminate college-degree requirement for good-paying jobs. Then, on the Research Minute, Amber shares a study investigating the “fade-out effect” in early childhood education programs.

Oct 10, 2024 | internazionale.it | David J. Deming

Di solito gli economisti concordano sul fatto che la concorrenza è una cosa buona e che i mercati con poche aziende in posizione dominante sono inefficienti. Forse dovremmo guardarci meglio allo specchio. Secondo uno studio recente i vincitori dei principali premi per l’economia, compreso il Nobel, hanno trascorso metà della loro carriera in sole otto università: Harvard (dove insegno io), Yale, Princeton, Stanford, Mit, l’università di Chicago, la Columbia e Berkeley (tutte negli Stati Uniti).

Oct 7, 2024 | forklightning.substack.com | David J. Deming

Welcome back! Last week we talked about the history of machinists and how computers shifted the demands of the job from technical precision to problem-solving and teamwork. Thanks for reading Forked Lightning! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. This morning, the Aspen Economic Strategy Group released a paper I wrote with Chris Ong and Larry Summers called “Technological Disruption in the Labor Market.” You can find the paper here.