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Freeeeeeeeaaaaaaak!

Posted by Unknown | 7:03 PM
Steven Levitt, of Freakonomics fame, writes of Paul Krugman : I did not think that Paul Krugman was still writing academic papers. Nor h...
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Why is Liu Xiaobo China's first Nobel prize winner?

Posted by Unknown | 2:57 PM
Last week, Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo won the Nobel Peace Prize for his work on Charter 08 , a document that calls for democratic reforms ...
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Do higher taxes make the rich work less?

Posted by Unknown | 1:19 PM
Greg Mankiw is an economist whose academic work I greatly admire and respect, but whose economics-related punditry often leaves me gaping in...
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Why no one in the U.S. really wants to get tough on China

Posted by Unknown | 12:10 PM
The House has just passed a bill that would allow the President to impose tariffs on China in retaliation for China's currency manipula...
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Is Obama anti-business?

Posted by Unknown | 12:50 PM
The Economist has two articles ( one , two ) on whether Obama is "anti-business." According to both, business leaders are increas...
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Anchor Babies

Posted by Unknown | 11:21 AM
In response to my last post, commenter "l" writes: The birth-right citizenship was created for the slaves already in the US after...
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Conservatives know that their real enemy is the Constitution

Posted by Unknown | 9:16 AM
I argued in a past post that American conservatives' true enemy is actually the American Constitution . Conservatives have always wanted...
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Why the Tea Party doesn't scare me (much)

Posted by Unknown | 2:08 PM
Could America be the new Weimar Republic? Could a combination of bad economic times, military setbacks, and racial/ethnic paranoia fuel a de...
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Soaking the moderately rich

Posted by Unknown | 8:04 AM
Much fun in the blogosphere today, as Brad DeLong links us to a couple of posts by law professor Todd Henderson, who is complaining that hi...
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China: it's tariffs or nothing

Posted by Unknown | 8:27 AM
In the news today, I see another instance of Tim Geithner pretending to get tough on Chinese currency manipulation: In his testimony, Mr. G...
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What will destroy us in 2012?

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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Neoclassical economics, post 2 - are public goods a socialist plot?

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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