Posted by Unknown | 8:40 AM

I hope Paul Krugman isn't talking about me when he writes : The macroeconomics [centrist dodge] looks like this: a concerned writer or s...

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Posted by Unknown | 9:48 AM

I have located a Bizarro Economics World. It is entire subculture in which people discuss economic issues, ideas, and policy. But it appears...

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Posted by Unknown | 10:04 PM

Simon Wren-Lewis notes that although plenty of new macroeconomics has been added in response to the recent crisis/depression, nothing has be...

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Posted by Unknown | 7:57 AM

Dan Murphy is a fellow graduate student here at the University of Michigan, and will be going out on the job market next year. We were havi...

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Posted by Unknown | 7:56 AM

Stephen Gordon writes about trade in the Globe and Mail : [T]he [Canadian] Conservatives are selling trade agreements with the European Unio...

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Posted by Unknown | 12:25 PM

Conor Friedersdorf and I couldn't find that much to disagree about in my first ever Bloggingheads diavlog. But we did manage to get some...

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Posted by Unknown | 9:29 PM

To tribe or not to tribe? That is the question. I don't get much of a kick out of being an iconoclast. It does not make me feel smug or ...

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Posted by Unknown | 2:02 PM

I have a new article over at the Atlantic , co-written with Adam Ozimek of Modeled Behavior. It's all about high-skilled immigration (or...

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Posted by Unknown | 11:32 AM

Human capital formation, Stanford style This is not an area I know a lot about, but I have some thoughts. Some people think college is about...

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Posted by Unknown | 10:34 PM

Robert Barro is the third most cited economist in the world . He's the true inventor of "Ricardian" Equivalence , to which he ...

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Posted by Unknown | 3:19 PM

Economic theorists have worked hard to lower expectations for their field. The standard line (originally due, I think, to Keynes?) is that, ...

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Posted by Unknown | 10:37 AM

Or, "In which I am regrettably forced to heartlessly massacre the entire Pigou Club, of which my advisor has just declared himself a me...

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Posted by Unknown | 3:42 PM

Actually, it's incredibly easy to create fake GDP. You simply scratch my back and charge me $10, and then I scratch your back and charge...

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Posted by Unknown | 10:52 PM

Is America waking from its long libertarian daydream? For years, many of our brightest intellectuals embraced the simplistic idea that "...

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