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Posted by | 10:33 AM
I'm on vacation in California, so the posts will come less frequently... Anyone interested in international relations, China, or the fut...

China prognostications

Posted by | 4:19 PM
Via Marginal Revolution, we find that Nobel Prize-winning economic historian Robert Fogel is almost eye-poppingly bullish on China : In 2040...

Dragonomics

Posted by | 10:30 AM
Be careful what you wish for, Arthur Kroeber writes in the Washington Post. Successfully forcing China to drop its yuan peg would have unint...

Corporate Taxation

Posted by | 9:05 AM
Interesting blog post by Jason Furman at The Economist's blog Free Exchange. He defends the idea of taxing income at the business level ...

Quick thoughts

Posted by | 11:50 AM
1. Tyler Cowen writes in the NYT about America's high number of young entrepreneurs . The reason? "[T]hese successes," Cowen ...

Rationality on regulation

Posted by | 12:37 PM
When we hear the word "regulation," economists tend to panic (shh, don't tell anyone I just called myself an "economist...

Kazakh scientist Dr. Yamak prove woman's brain is size of squirrel!

Posted by | 7:48 AM
Tyler Cowen addresses feminist economics . What he dislikes: feminist economists' "lack of a hardheaded willingness to recognize po...

The Four Kinds of Countries

Posted by | 7:09 PM
James Wolfensohn, former president of the World Bank, writes in the International Herald Tribune that there are four kinds of countries in ...

Classical conservatives

Posted by | 10:52 AM
Two or three centuries ago, while the Enlightenment was undweray in Europe, and revolution was afoot in America and France, there were some ...

Restoration of the United States

Posted by | 8:51 AM
Here's an interesting column by Fareed Zakaria . As usual, his topic is how the U.S. can restore its prestige, power, world leadership, ...