Posted by Unknown | 8:08 PM

Tyler Cowen says that the most likely world-ending event for 2012 is destruction of the Earth by space aliens . That is silly. First of all,...

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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 | 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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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 | 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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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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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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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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