Posted by Unknown | 1:19 PM

Greg Mankiw is an economist whose academic work I greatly admire and respect, but whose economics-related punditry often leaves me gaping in...

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Posted by Unknown | 8:04 AM

Much fun in the blogosphere today, as Brad DeLong links us to a couple of posts by law professor Todd Henderson, who is complaining that hi...

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Posted by Unknown | 2:06 PM

Stephen Williamson, in his defense of "neoclassical"/"Minnesota" economics , says some very smart and reasonable things ...

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Posted by Unknown | 10:05 AM

Stephen Williamson has written an impassioned defense of the "neoclassical" (or "Minnesota" or "RBC") approac...

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Posted by Unknown | 1:19 PM

In recent years, more and more credence has been given to the scary notion of "skill-biased technological change" - the idea that ...

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Posted by Unknown | 8:42 AM

Paul Krugman : [T]he [Obama administration's] new [infrastructure] initiative is a chance for me to air one of my pet peeves: the stupi...

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Posted by Unknown | 9:04 PM

Thomas Sargent, a famous economist, is one of the main pioneers and proponents of Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium models - the kind o...

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Posted by Unknown | 10:54 AM

Much is being made over the fact that China just passed Japan to claim the title of "world's second-biggest economy." Although...

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Posted by Unknown | 11:59 AM

I was going to have three posts on trade models - the two I teach, and the one I don't teach. But I realized that the middle model - the...

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Posted by Unknown | 9:08 AM

I've often ranted about the "neoclassical revolution" in macroeconomics, which came along in the late 70s and early 80s and tu...

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Posted by Unknown | 3:02 PM

In my last post , I wrote: I myself have participated in this, in the Introductory Macroeconomics course I TA for at the University of Michi...

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Posted by Unknown | 11:13 AM

Just to add to the list of bloggers smacking down Kartik Athreya for his assertion that bloggers shouldn't talk about economics, we hav...

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Posted by Unknown | 10:31 AM

Bill Gavin and Menzie Chinn solve the mystery of the "jobless recoveries" we've been having since the early 90s: In the earli...

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Posted by Unknown | 8:14 AM

Wow. Kartik Athreya, researcher at the Richmond Fed, set off a blogging conflagration the likes of which I haven't seen since George Wil...

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Posted by Unknown | 12:38 PM

More and more, one single truth about America's national debt is becoming clear: If we don't want an unsustainable increase in our d...

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Posted by Unknown | 8:42 AM

Superhero economist Paul Krug-man, and his favorite sidekick J. Bradford, are hopping mad over the turn toward fiscal austerity in European ...

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