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EconoTrolls: An Illustrated Bestiary
Posted by Unknown | 12:11 AM
In your journey through the Econ Blogosphere, you will be beset by a great many curious and interesting species of EconoTroll. At first you ...
Engineering vs. "Science" in macroeconomics
Posted by Unknown | 5:29 PM
I like Simon Wren-Lewis a lot, not just because he has a beard, but because he's one of the few people still talking about macroeconomic...
Time to Japanic?
Posted by Unknown | 10:49 AM
The Atlantic has a big story on the impending Japanese crash ; one of the authors is the brilliant Simon Johnson. Excerpts: About half of th...
New Atlantic piece: How to beat global warming
Posted by Unknown | 12:24 PM
My new Atlantic piece is out, entitled "The End of Global Warming: How to Save the Earth in 2 Easy Steps". I kind of disagree wi...
Has Tim Worstall made the case for one-way free trade?
Posted by Unknown | 1:08 PM
At Forbes , Tim Worstall attempts a critique (or, in blog parlance, a smackdown) of my last post , on one-way free trade. I want to thank T...
A parable of one-way free trade
Posted by Unknown | 8:40 AM
Trade policy is the Third Rail of Economics, because economists tell ourselves that free trade is the one thing all reasonable economists ca...
The state of the Macro Wars
Posted by Unknown | 10:21 AM
New Update : The pessimism in this post has been proven (somewhat) wrong. Bernanke just announced that the Fed will buy $40B of mortgage-bac...