Posted by Unknown | 2:34 PM

Michael Spence, winner of the 2001 economics Nobel, joins the heretic movement that was given voice by Andy Grove : The structural evolutio...

0 comments Labels: Industrial Policy, Trade

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...

0 comments Labels: Economics, Industrial Policy, Trade

Posted by Unknown | 10:24 PM

Tim Duy weighs in on the industrial policy discussion touched off by Andy Grove's article in Business Week . His post is telling, becau...

0 comments Labels: Industrial Policy, Trade

Posted by Unknown | 3:16 PM

Andy Grove, the famous Intel boss who built the company into the world's leading semiconductor manufacturer, has come out in favor of ol...

0 comments Labels: Industrial Policy, Trade

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...

0 comments Labels: Economics

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...

0 comments Labels: Economics, Unemployment

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...

0 comments Labels: Economics

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...

0 comments Labels: Debt, Economics, Health Care

Posted by Unknown | 9:29 AM

In this article in MacLean's , Charlie Gillis worries that Canada is engaging in too much "country profiling" in its immigrati...

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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 ...

0 comments Labels: Economics

Posted by Unknown | 12:56 PM

Albert Einstein claimed that "God does not play dice" with the interactions of subatomic particles. Actually, as it turned out, He...

0 comments Labels: Libertarianism, Rants

Posted by Unknown | 6:58 PM

When I was seven, my dad taught me about the Viet Cong. Although they were very brutal, he said - torture, murdering civilians, terrorism, a...

0 comments Labels: Israel, Rants