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Once again, America destroys Amurka

Posted by Unknown | 6:27 PM
Reihan Salam's take on the recent Beck/Palin rally in D.C.: Palin, like Beck, was talking about a spiritual restoration, a return to t...
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When will China pass America?

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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Why dictatorships fail

Posted by Unknown | 9:51 AM
Dani Rodrik points out that, on average, democracies outperform dictatorships in terms of long-term economic growth and economic stability....
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Why our country is going down the tubes, and what you can do about it

Posted by Unknown | 12:56 PM
America is caught in a spiral of decline and stagnation. Why? The most immediate cause is that we refuse to spend money on public goods : Th...
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Anti-manufacturing bias in the economics blogosphere

Posted by Unknown | 8:23 PM
The economics blog Vox claims that the U.S. will not be able to increase employment in the manufacturing sector through promotion of goods e...
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The return of industrial policy

Posted by Unknown | 1:25 PM
The stars have aligned, and industrial policy is slowly starting to rise from its centuries-long slumber beneath the ocean floor... Preside...
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Economic security

Posted by Unknown | 12:43 PM
In explaining the divisions between Democrats/liberals and Republicans/conservatives, I've often focused on cultural, regional, and raci...
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Two Americas

Posted by Unknown | 12:22 PM
Back in the mid-century, we used to have an America with room for both conservatives and liberals. Liberals got to have activist government,...
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Democrats have many good ideas. Republicans have no ideas whatsoever.

Posted by Unknown | 2:18 PM
This is a partisan post. Which is not to say I'm writing this because I like Democrats better in general. I just like Democrats better r...
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He's right and he's right? They can't both be right!

Posted by Unknown | 11:04 AM
Ryan Avent, perhaps prodded by my comment-thread heckling (yeah...in my dreams!), has started making a lot more sense in his arguments agai...
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Trade models I don't teach - The "New Trade Theory"

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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An econ prof explains why macro went down the tubes

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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