Posted by Unknown | 10:48 AM

Blogging will be on hold until at least September 12, and possibly until October. For all those of you who feel the need to email me and yel...

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Posted by Unknown | 7:59 AM

Tyler Cowen ,  Karl Smith , Scott Sumner , and Matt Yglesias  raise a question about the Japanese economy: Why is Japan's unemployment r...

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Posted by Unknown | 10:11 AM

OK, REALLY, dissertation committee, this is my last blog post for a while. PROMISE. But this Tyler Cowen article was too good to pass up. I...

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Posted by Unknown | 4:18 AM

This article by Stephen Moore in the WSJ basically sums up the economic viewpoint of naive conservatives. Key excerpts: I'm surprised h...

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Posted by Unknown | 7:02 AM

More interesting thoughts on envy from the guys at the Cato blog. Bryan Caplan says we should " count our blessings "; I agree, th...

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Posted by Unknown | 6:14 AM

The libertarian movement often has a very odd notion of "liberty." Here is yet another case in point. Reviewing a book about happi...

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Posted by Unknown | 5:57 AM

Over at the New York Times, Paul Krugman and Casey Mulligan have been having a debate. Mulligan says that seasonal variation in teen employ...

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Posted by Unknown | 5:13 AM

Update : I wrote this post in the summer of 2011, while working in Tokyo. But this year, in the summer of 2012, I went back to Tokyo for two...

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Posted by Unknown | 2:21 AM

Here is a video of Greg Mankiw's August 8 appearance on Larry Kudlow . At 3:27, Mankiw says: Fiscal policy is going to be a drag going f...

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Posted by Unknown | 8:25 AM

I would like to think that I am not a shill for the Democratic Party. I realize that my extreme liberalism on social issues biases me toward...

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Posted by Unknown | 12:44 PM

Being the mild and nonconfrontational guy that I am, I was a little embarrassed to give this post such a combative title, but after implying...

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