John Taylor draws a Phillips Curve

Posted by | 10:30 PM
On Tuesday, Greg Mankiw linked to a two-month-old blog post by John Taylor of Stanford University. Taylor posts the following graph, which...

Tyler Cowen buys straddles on humanity's future

Posted by | 10:59 PM
Just a quick post here...I've been working hard on dissertation (let's hope Miles Kimball and Uday Rajan are reading this sentence),...

Japan - truth, fiction, and stereotypes

Posted by | 10:16 PM
Peter Tasker is regarded as "the foremost authority on the Japanese equity market". He lives in Japan, and makes a living studyin...

Predicting China's inevitable slowdown

Posted by | 5:41 PM
"If something cannot go on forever, it will stop." - Herbert Stein China's rapid growth has been going on for 30 years, but it...

Economists' mistakes on climate change

Posted by | 3:06 PM
Some climate scientists have been getting mad at economists lately (see also here ). As Karl Smith notes , most economic analyses of climat...

Is econ a science? On its good days, yes.

Posted by | 4:21 PM
  Karl Smith Adam Ozimek has a blog post up about whether economics is a science . This is a questions I've thought about a lot. It'...

Libertarianism is a "low-end" strategy of state formation

Posted by | 6:09 PM
Reading Ian Morris' Why the West Rules -- for Now , I was struck by the following passage: In a nutshell, the Eastern and Western cores ...

In a pinch, upgrade the humans or redistribute the robots

Posted by | 8:26 PM
In my last post , I took a somewhat dim view of economic theories that rely on extremely specific but unobservable changes in technology to ...

Technology in the gaps

Posted by | 11:33 AM
It must have been strange to be an ancient Greek. Storms happened because Zeus woke up in a bad mood. Seas were calm because Poseidon was of...