Price gouging my eye!

Posted by | 6:25 PM
Ditto Robert Samuelson . Sure, the public hates high gas prices, but it's time to stop demagoguing the issue and accusing oil companies ...

China and the U.S. - one of us in this room is a sucker

Posted by | 7:59 PM
Greg Mankiw finally tosses his hat into the China policy debate ring. His basic claim: China's exchange rate peg hurts only China, and o...

Yglesias: fight for liberal policies on their own merits

Posted by | 9:57 AM
There's a reason Matt Yglesias is my favorite blogger. It's because, once in a while, he pops out with something so true, and so fun...

Thought of the Week - are Chavez and Putin good for the environment?

Posted by | 1:25 PM
For those who don't know, the " Pigou Club " is a name econ bloggers use to refer to anyone who is in favor of Pigovian taxes ...

Econ smackdown: China battle!

Posted by | 5:30 PM
As the (probably useless) "Strategic Dialogue" between the U.S.'s and China's trade representatives gets underway , the ec...

More on China from James Mann

Posted by | 8:55 AM
I'm not exactly sure what James Mann's qualifications are as a China scholar; he's listed as "author in residence at Johns ...

Reform in China: He's right and he's right?

Posted by | 12:45 PM
For those of you interested in U.S.-China relations, there's a very interesting debate in this week's Foreign Policy magazine betw...

The Democrats and Trade

Posted by | 8:32 AM
Fareed Zakaria takes the Democrats to task in his latest Newsweek column for drifting toward protectionism. But he offers precious few exam...

Beneficial inequality and cost-increasing innovations...?

Posted by | 7:19 PM
At the risk of turning Noahpinion into an econ blog...a second economics-related post in a row! Gary Becker writes in AEI's online magaz...

Don't apply for med school just yet

Posted by | 8:13 AM
It's a little wonkish, but this post about outsourcing is a great one (hat tip, once again, to Yglesias ). Basically, the famed economi...