Posted by Unknown | 12:47 PM

Peter Thiel has some weird ideas. He thinks there was a "collapse of art and literature after 1945." He wants to live on a floatin...

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Posted by Unknown | 2:29 PM

Finishing my dissertation this year has forced me to come out of my troll-cave and interact a lot more with my econ department. And that has...

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Posted by Unknown | 11:44 AM

As a follow-up to my last post , here's my attempt at a taxonomy of "who wins" under various economic systems. You may perhaps...

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Posted by Unknown | 7:41 PM

"A city is made of brick, Pharoah. The strong make many. The weak make few. The dead make none." - Moses I'm a bit late to the...

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Posted by Unknown | 6:05 PM

This morning, as I read the latest big expose on the continuing financialization of America's economy (this one courtesy of the excelle...

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Posted by Unknown | 3:01 PM

First, let me say that I think it's a tad silly to walk out of a survey course because you think it's biased and incomplete, before...

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Posted by Unknown | 11:00 AM

Phil Plait of Bad Astronomy is someone I respect a great deal, and I love his blog. But in this post , he tells one of the most blatant who...

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Posted by Unknown | 3:18 PM

This weekend, at an INET conference, Mike Konczal of Rortybomb made the excellent point that the econ blogosphere is probably adding more ...

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Posted by Unknown | 3:31 PM

The econ blogosphere is afire with talk of "NGDP targeting." I don't have a huge amount to add to this discussion, but this po...

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