Posted by Unknown | 9:25 PM

Matt writes : But while reduction is something scientists inquire into, it's never been the case that reduction is the sine qua non of u...

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Posted by Unknown | 12:28 PM

...Well, not actually all of modern macro. Just the way that modern macroeconomists define the "business cycle" . But since the ...

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Posted by Unknown | 3:10 PM

I confess: I take a guilty pleasure in reading articles that claim "This time it's different". Back in 2004-5, when I started ...

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Posted by Unknown | 1:11 PM

For the past few weeks I've been getting acquainted with the popular wing of the "Austrian economics" movement. First I discov...

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Posted by Unknown | 3:00 PM

In 2001, Brad Barber and Terrance Odean published a very famous finance paper called " Boys Will Be Boys: Gender, Overconfidence, and C...

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Posted by Unknown | 2:37 PM

John Taylor uncovers a dire and hitherto little-known threat to the freedoms we Americans hold dear: In a recent speech at Stanford former ...

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Posted by Unknown | 11:30 AM

Steve Williamson has a post arguing against NGDP targeting . I just wanted to throw my two cents in, and consider an issue that Steve didn...

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Posted by Unknown | 9:50 AM

The freedom to pee is not in your contract! My advisor, Miles Kimball, requested a blog post on the recent debate over workplace freedom, so...

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Posted by Unknown | 8:40 AM

I hope Paul Krugman isn't talking about me when he writes : The macroeconomics [centrist dodge] looks like this: a concerned writer or s...

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Posted by Unknown | 9:48 AM

I have located a Bizarro Economics World. It is entire subculture in which people discuss economic issues, ideas, and policy. But it appears...

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Posted by Unknown | 10:04 PM

Simon Wren-Lewis notes that although plenty of new macroeconomics has been added in response to the recent crisis/depression, nothing has be...

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Posted by Unknown | 7:57 AM

Dan Murphy is a fellow graduate student here at the University of Michigan, and will be going out on the job market next year. We were havi...

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