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What I learned in econ grad school

Short thoughts, mostly about the decline of America

Posted by Unknown | 11:59 PM
1. The Economist is a "classical liberal" publication. The Economist understands that America needs more, not less, government s...
The tax debate has never been about the evidence

Posted by Unknown | 10:14 AM
Matt Yglesias sees the American right retreating from intellectual/empirical attacks on progressive taxation, and falling back on moral att...
Local nonsatiation and the "man who can't be taxed"

Posted by Unknown | 3:05 PM
Some people I've talked to are of the opinion that I've been too harsh on Steven Landsburg . They say that I've been too harsh b...
In which Steven Landsburg utterly flips out

Posted by Unknown | 8:41 PM
Steven Landsburg thinks he has come up with a proof that taxation of the "idle rich" is impossible : [The extremely rich] Mr. Kend...
Idea of the day: National universities

Posted by Unknown | 11:09 AM
I'm a little late in getting to it, but Matt Yglesias has a great post about America's human capital stagnation : [T]hroughout our h...
Calm down, Will Wilkinson! Joe Stiglitz is not the problem.

Posted by Unknown | 11:10 PM
Will Wilkinson is normally one of the calm voices of reason in the political-econ blogosphere. But when liberals complain about inequality...
De divinationibus orbium oeconomiae

Posted by Unknown | 1:29 AM
Except for showing off my knowledge of Latin, I have nothing to add to the following four items. Rochelle Edge and Refet Gurkaynak on the f...
Raghuram Rajan's wrongness rankles

Posted by Unknown | 12:01 PM
Raghuram Rajan is at it again, taxing my powers of alliteration. His latest column in Project Syndicate contains what seems to be to be an ...