Posted by Unknown | 8:33 PM

Time for a post that's not about economics. Number 4 on this list of " 5 Things Nobody Tells You About Living In Japan " is, i...

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Posted by Unknown | 2:45 PM

I find Bob Lucas more intriguing than any other economist of the last few decades. I'm always interested to read what he has to say, for...

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Posted by Unknown | 1:03 PM

I just finished listening to Keynes Hayek: The Clash that Defined Modern Economics , by Nicholas Wapshott. You won't learn much economic...

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Posted by Unknown | 12:01 PM

In the blog world, there's been some argument as to what the younger generation really thinks about the whole "Macro Wars" th...

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Posted by Unknown | 9:09 PM

Inflation is one of those things that almost nobody who isn't an economist seems to understand (though that doesn't mean all economi...

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Posted by Unknown | 7:45 PM

I've seen four Michael Moore films: Roger and Me , The Big One , Bowling for Columbine , and Sicko . I've seen him speak twice, once...

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Posted by Unknown | 2:46 PM

My new column in the Atlantic makes the case that we should establish a Federal University System in parallel to the state and private syst...

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Posted by Unknown | 6:02 PM

Cato scholar and Forbes writer Timothy B. Lee is hardly what you'd call a liberal. Nevertheless, he's written a scathing column on ...

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Posted by Unknown | 9:33 AM

"Murphy was an optimist." - Unknown It's two years later, and I'm still being linked to Tom Murphy's famous blog post...

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Posted by Unknown | 4:19 PM

In his new book The Better Angels of Our Nature , Steve Pinker demonstrates that war and violence have declined worldwide, and speculates as...

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Posted by Unknown | 8:00 PM

The absurd outburst of Nate Silver Denialism was just the most egregious example of the alternate reality bubble that the American conservat...

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Posted by Unknown | 11:55 AM

Casey Mulligan has a new book out, called  The Redistribution Recession , advancing his unorthodox ideas about the cause of the Great Recess...

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