Moral compass: no thanks

Posted by | 11:40 AM
Apparently someone has been going around accusing economists of being cold-blooded amoral technocrats. Reptilian people who look at the worl...

Globalization, unemployment, and inequality

Posted by | 11:50 AM
Nancy Folbre makes the claim that globalization has worsened unemployment and inequality : Why has the economic recovery left workers behind...

Dregs of the Earth

Posted by | 9:32 PM
Someday, the robots will replace mankind. But have they already started to replace the less talented among us? Tyler Cowen thinks so. He hyp...

Getting ready for the next American century

Posted by | 4:28 PM
Snarky, contrarian pundits have been doing their best of late to come up with reasons why China's rise (and America's accompanying d...