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I think Stephen Gordon gets trade wrong

Posted by Unknown | 7:56 AM
Stephen Gordon writes about trade in the Globe and Mail : [T]he [Canadian] Conservatives are selling trade agreements with the European Unio...
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Libertarians and the security state

Posted by Unknown | 12:25 PM
Conor Friedersdorf and I couldn't find that much to disagree about in my first ever Bloggingheads diavlog. But we did manage to get some...
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On being a liberal economics blogger

Posted by Unknown | 9:29 PM
To tribe or not to tribe? That is the question. I don't get much of a kick out of being an iconoclast. It does not make me feel smug or ...
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America, Land of the Nerds!

Posted by Unknown | 2:02 PM
I have a new article over at the Atlantic , co-written with Adam Ozimek of Modeled Behavior. It's all about high-skilled immigration (or...
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College is mostly about human capital, not signaling

Posted by Unknown | 11:32 AM
Human capital formation, Stanford style This is not an area I know a lot about, but I have some thoughts. Some people think college is about...
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Robot Barro?

Posted by Unknown | 10:34 PM
Robert Barro is the third most cited economist in the world . He's the true inventor of "Ricardian" Equivalence , to which he ...
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Economic theory that actually works

Posted by Unknown | 3:19 PM
Economic theorists have worked hard to lower expectations for their field. The standard line (originally due, I think, to Keynes?) is that, ...
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Carbon taxes won't work. Here's what will.

Posted by Unknown | 10:37 AM
Or, "In which I am regrettably forced to heartlessly massacre the entire Pigou Club, of which my advisor has just declared himself a me...
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How does this "fake GDP" work?

Posted by Unknown | 3:42 PM
Actually, it's incredibly easy to create fake GDP. You simply scratch my back and charge me $10, and then I scratch your back and charge...
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Libertarians embracing public goods, Tim Lee edition

Posted by Unknown | 10:52 PM
Is America waking from its long libertarian daydream? For years, many of our brightest intellectuals embraced the simplistic idea that ...
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Does Steve Williamson think printing money can't cause inflation?

Posted by Unknown | 7:44 PM
OK, OK, one more quick post and then back to work!! In my last post , I linked to a Miles Kimball post explaining the theory behind Quantit...
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Miles Kimball, the Supply-Side Liberal

Posted by Unknown | 3:39 PM
Miles Kimball attempting, with some success, not to look at the camera... Those of you who think I know anything about macroeconomics should...
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