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What I learned in econ grad school
Posted by Unknown | 3:56 PM
I always find it interesting that criticisms of economics education focus more on the graduate side than the undergrad. Consider this broads...
Short thoughts, mostly about the decline of America
Posted by Unknown | 11:59 PM
1. The Economist is a "classical liberal" publication. The Economist understands that America needs more, not less, government s...
The tax debate has never been about the evidence
Posted by Unknown | 10:14 AM
Matt Yglesias sees the American right retreating from intellectual/empirical attacks on progressive taxation, and falling back on moral att...
Local nonsatiation and the "man who can't be taxed"
Posted by Unknown | 3:05 PM
Some people I've talked to are of the opinion that I've been too harsh on Steven Landsburg . They say that I've been too harsh b...
In which Steven Landsburg utterly flips out
Posted by Unknown | 8:41 PM
Steven Landsburg thinks he has come up with a proof that taxation of the "idle rich" is impossible : [The extremely rich] Mr. Kend...
Idea of the day: National universities
Posted by Unknown | 11:09 AM
I'm a little late in getting to it, but Matt Yglesias has a great post about America's human capital stagnation : [T]hroughout our h...
Calm down, Will Wilkinson! Joe Stiglitz is not the problem.
Posted by Unknown | 11:10 PM
Will Wilkinson is normally one of the calm voices of reason in the political-econ blogosphere. But when liberals complain about inequality...
De divinationibus orbium oeconomiae
Posted by Unknown | 1:29 AM
Except for showing off my knowledge of Latin, I have nothing to add to the following four items. Rochelle Edge and Refet Gurkaynak on the f...
Raghuram Rajan's wrongness rankles
Posted by Unknown | 12:01 PM
Raghuram Rajan is at it again, taxing my powers of alliteration. His latest column in Project Syndicate contains what seems to be to be an ...


