MikeP's Stuff

Here's one of Steven Landsburg's old columns. I like this kind of thing because he takes a simple economic issue, the sort of thing that might bug you or pique your curiosity momentarily, and he analyzes it to bits using the tools of economics. fun.

The idea of a trip into the countryside sounds great. In the midst of two weeks in HK and tokyo, we will probably be dying for some rural landscape.

I just got some tickets for Korean Air which means we must switch planes in Seoul. I didn't realize at time of

Our tour begins in Shinjuku. The station here is one of the central hubs of Tokyo transportation, and our hotel was just a few blocks away. Every day we went back and forth to that station, taking trains all over Tokyo. The area around the station is full of all kinds of activity, restaurants, shops.. and lots and lots of people.