Posted by Unknown | 10:30 PM

I met a Mayan engineer on the plane last December. He was headed to Detroit to learn something about some mechanical engineering thing th...

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Posted by Unknown | 9:16 AM

I get asked about this one a lot. And it's also a source of controversy...on one hand you have some econ critics who say "E...

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Posted by Unknown | 11:58 PM

David Andolfatto (of the St. Louis Fed and the blog MacroMania ) points me to this interesting recent working paper by Braun, Korber,...

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Posted by Unknown | 2:34 PM

Mark Steyn strikes me as the kind of guy who would trick his buddy into picking a fight, then laugh as his buddy got punched in th...

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Posted by Unknown | 10:56 PM

...Nothing important to human beings in rich countries, that is. One of the first things I noticed when I started studying economics was tha...

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Posted by Unknown | 1:25 AM

John Taylor, possibly more than any other economist who writes in the press, likes to simplify things for public consumption. Personally I t...

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Posted by Unknown | 7:16 PM

Although my Atlantic column on wealth inequality got a lot of publicity, the comments were mostly negative. Almost all of them sai...

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Posted by Unknown | 9:56 AM

New column up at The Atlantic . The basic idea: We should try to make Americans' wealth distribution more equal. Excerpts: The m...

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Posted by Unknown | 1:53 PM

Matt Yglesias has a post about the left and wages that I think makes a number of errors. Here's the intro: The left is rightly c...

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Posted by Unknown | 6:47 PM

Last December, Shinzo Abe swept to power, promising to force the Bank of Japan to re-inflate the economy at any cost, boost stimulus s...

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Posted by Unknown | 7:25 PM

On 2/26, Miles Kimball wrote a Quartz column called " What Paul Krugman got wrong about Italy's economy ", in which he sa...

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