Leaders
Brad Delong, Berkeley
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Josiah Ober: The Greeks and the Rational: The Discovery of Practical Reasons
Josiah Ober: The Greeks and the Rational: The Discovery of Practical Reasons: "September 19 Lecture 1. Gyges’ Choice: Rationality and Visibility. September 26 Lecture 2. Glaucon’s Dilemma: Origins of Social Order. Lecture 3. Deioces’ Ultimatum: How to Choose a King. Lecture 4. Cleisthenes’ Wager: Democratic Rationality. Lecture 5. Melos’ Prospects: Rational Domination. Lecture 6. Agamemnon’s Cluelessness: Reason and Eudaimonia......
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Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality 2019-09-18 21:47:07
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Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality 2019-09-18 16:20:38
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Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality 2019-09-18 16:18:14
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Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality 2019-09-18 16:15:19
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Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality 2019-09-18 15:56:52
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Hoisted from the Archives: David Glasner Says That I Am More of a Hayekian than I Think I Am…
Bradley A. Hansen’s Blog
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A Description of the Problems with Edward Baptist’s “The Half Has Never Been Told” for Non-Economists
I’m writing this because Nikole Hannah Jones said on Twitter that she was trying to understand the argument that economic historians have against the work of Edward Baptist but had a problem with some of the terminology used by economists. I usually try to avoid economic jargon, but today I have tried even harder. If there are terms that are unclear please let me know. I'm also writing this because Ben Schneider suggested I give it a try. I...
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Economics needs better critics: Jared Bernstein edition
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Institutions, Norms, and Culture
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Blog Post From Nebraska
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“You think it’s dead but de past ain’t stopped breathin’ yet.”
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Gavin Wright on Slavery and Anglo-American Capitalism
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Public Goods, Private Roads, and the Case of Scandinavia
Casey Mulligan: Supply and Demand
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Comparing Presidents Reagan and Trump: The Case of International Trade
]]> “I am a tariff man...” President Trump, December 2018 “We should beware of the demagogues who are ready to declare a trade war against our friends—weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world—all while cynically waving the American flag.” President Reagan, November 1988 (If you have five extra minutes -- and tissues to wipe away tears of joy, affection, and patriotism -- watch the full Reagan defense of...
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Some Relevant International Trade Theory
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Economic Theory in the White House: An Index of 66 Instances in One Year
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Comparing Presidents Reagan and Trump: The Case of Regulation
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Economic Theory in the White House: The Rebate Rule
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“No One in Ohio Cares About Burma”: The Washington Bubble
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Marxist Provisions in “Medicare for All”
Dani Rodrik’s weblog
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Follow my commentary
Even though I post here occasionally, my regular monthly pieces are published on the Project Syndicate website and you can read them here. For a full list of my opinion pieces, go here. My research papers and books are here and here, respectively. Finally, if you want to follow me in the news, check out here.
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Some (very brief) words for graduates
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Economics for Inclusive Prosperity (EfIP)
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Economists’ statement in support of Atif Mian
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My preface to Santiago Levy’s Book: Under-Rewarded Efforts — The Elusive Quest for Prosperity in Mexico
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My preface to Santiago Levy’s Book: Under-Rewarded Efforts — The Elusive Quest for Prosperity in Mexico
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Site Maintenance
David Flynn: Barter is Evil
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The Week Ahead ~ 16 September 2019
There are several US data series worth paying attention to this week for the data inclined person in North Dakota. At the U.S. level we will get private housing starts for August. Housing is an interesting US and North Dakota issue so national trends certainly bear watching. There will be oil market volatility to scrutinize. The situation in the Middle East is heating up, obviously, and that matters for North Dakota and the US is ways...
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Capital gains and inflation are complicated
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Fertility Stability in North Dakota
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Yield Curve Inversion and North Dakota
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North Dakota and US Recession
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Comparing ND and the US
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Barter is Evil 1970-01-01 00:00:00
Econbrowser – James Hamilton
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Ken Rogoff: “Is this the beginning of the end of central bank independence?”
Why you should attend this UW Economics JPGI talk by Kenneth Rogoff tomorrow (Wednesday) at 4:30 pm: …The United States, because of the Federal Reserve, is paying a MUCH higher Interest Rate than other competing countries. They can’t believe how lucky they are that Jay Powell & the Fed don’t have a clue. And now, on top of it all, the Oil hit. Big Interest Rate Drop, Stimulus! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 16, 2019...
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Guest Contribution: “Identifying the German business cycle”
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Some Observations on Determining Business Cycle Chronologies
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“The Economic Effects of Trade Policy Uncertainty”
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“Massive, rotting soybean pile still burns after catching fire in July”
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Additional Graphs for Econ 435 Lecture
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Freight Shipping Growth and Recession Probability
David Andolfatto: Macro Mania
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A conversation with Eric Tymoigne on MMT vs SMT
There are a lot of moving parts to the MMT program. I want to focus on one of these parts today: the relation between monetary and fiscal policy. One thing I find appealing about MMT scholars is their attention to monetary history and institutional details. I've learned a lot from them in this regard. But as is often the case with details, one has to worry about whether they help shed light on a specific question of interest, or whether they...
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Blanchard and Farmer on the Phillips Curve
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Does the Phillips Curve Live in Europe?
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The Phillips Curve in Recession and Recovery
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Is the U.S. budget deficit sustainable?
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Is the ZLB an economic or legal constraint?
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The Chicago Booth Survey on MMT
Worthwhile Canadian Initiative
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On not “running out of ammo”: Monetary Policy as Farmland Price Policy
Imagine a central bank that pegs the price of farmland. It announces it will buy or sell unlimited amounts of farmland for $10,000 per hectare. So "one dollar" doesn't mean some number of ounces of gold; it means "one square meter of farmland". So the central bank owns farmland, which it rents out to farmers at market rents. It uses those rents to pay for paper and ink and economists' salaries, and gives the rest to the...
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What killed real wage growth?
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Project Link update
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Historical Canadian Government Data Sources
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Alpha Beta and the Libra Twist
Tim Harford: Undercover Economist
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What’s it like to have lunch with a Nobel laureate?
What’s it like to have lunch with a Nobel laureate? My recent “lunch with the FT” with Richard Thaler (Nobel laureate, author of Nudge and Misbehaving) was a lot of fun. I don’t do these formal sit-down interviews often but over the years I’ve racked up a few. At the end of the lunch I mentioned to Thaler the other economists I’d lunched with. “Good company”, he said. I think he’s right. So, just in case you missed the other interviews:...
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Should we take a few long holidays, or lots of short ones?
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“If you want people do to something, make it easy.” Richard Thaler has Lunch with the FT
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The magic of picture books
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What we get wrong about meetings – and how to make them worth attending
Timothy Taylor: Conversable Economist
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A Road Stop on the Development Journey
Economic development is a journey that has no final destination, at least not this side of utopia. But it can still be useful to take a road stop along the journey, see where we've been, and contemplate what comes next. Nancy H. Chau and Ravi Kanbur offer such an overview in their essay "The Past, Present, and Future of Economic Development," which appears in a collection of essays calledTowards a New Enlightenment? A Transcendent...
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When the University of Chicago Dropped Football
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Classroom vs. Smartphone: One Instructor Surrenders
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Is the US Economy Having an Engels’ Pause?
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Latin America: Missing Firms, Slow Growth, and Inequality
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Universal Basic Income–Combined With What Else?
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China and India Build Internal Supply Chains
S. Sumner: Money Illusion
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The ECB cut its IOR to minus 0.5%; it should have been minus 50%
The ECB should stop playing around with negative interest rates and simply put a prohibitive tax on excess reserves (something I proposed in 2009). If a small amount of excess reserves are needed to clear interbank balances, then exempt a modest amount of bank reserves from the negative 50% interest rate (aka 50% tax rate.) It’s time to abandon interest rate targeting and move to a monetarist approach to policy. In the short run, this heavy...
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More on Trump and trade
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My new Mercatus paper on IOR
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Land of bridges and tunnels
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Bullard on the Fed’s policy reappraisal
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Five facts about China
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Random notes
T. Cowen: Marginal Revolution
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Why we will end up piercing the corporate veil
The internet is one big reason why we will find it increasingly difficult to separate out the assets of a company from the assets of its founders or CEOs, as I discuss in my latest Bloomberg column: More important, social media personalizes agency — in effect, making it easier to accuse particular individuals of wrongdoing. Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, and the Koch brothers all have images or iconic photos that can be put into a social media...
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Wednesday assorted links
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Pollution, Climate Change and India’s Choice Between Policy and Pretense
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So be it!
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Lebanese/Gaza marriage markets in everything
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Vending machine markets in everything
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Tuesday assorted links
Simon Wren-Lewis
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On the supposed gap in the centre of UK politics, or the alleged powerlessness of the UK median voter
A remarkable feature of the UK political landscape is how powerless what could be called the political centre currently feels it is. By the centre I don’t just mean individuals that call themselves moderates, but also UK business: capital if you like. How did this happen? It is a long story I’m afraid. The first and most obvious factor is the UK’s first past the post (FPTP) voting system for MPs. In earlier decades this was thought to empower...
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Why the Supreme Court must protect our constitution
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Some observations on tactical voting in the forthcoming General Election
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Different kinds of fiscal stimulus
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Do Conservative MPs really think they can cope with the consequences of No Deal?
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Johnson suspends parliament to force a crash out Brexit
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A New Macropolicy Assignment
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Seldomly
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When Fewer Options are Better for Consumers: The Benefits of Narrow Health Insurance Networks
Summary Should health insurers be required to allow their enrollees to visit any hospital or doctor? Many insurers limit enrollees to “in-network” medical providers, forcing them to pay significant “out-of-network” costs if they seek care elsewhere. Our research examines the role that limited medical provider networks play in the U.S. commercial healthcare market and measures both their...
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Providing low-cost labor market information to assist jobseekers
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Subsidizing health insurance for low-income adults: evidence from Massachusetts
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Understanding the Average Impact of Microcredit
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Nominal wage rigidity in village labor markets: evidence from India
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Market power and the Laffer curve
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How management practices drive firms’ performance in the long run: evidence from the Marshall Plan
Roger Farmer’s Economic Window
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A Requiem for the Fiscal Theory of the Price Level
Pawel Zabcyck and I have completed an update of our new paper on the Fiscal Theory of the Price Level. Here is the abstract of our paper. The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level (FTPL) is the claim that, in a popular class of theoretical models, the price level is sometimes determined by fiscal policy ...
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Central Bank Equity Purchases: An Idea Whose Time has Come
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The Future of Macroeconomics
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Why the Indeterminacy Agenda Matters in the Real World
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Replacing the Phillips Curve: I showed you my macro model. Now show me your macro model.
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There are many unemployment rates for any r*
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Why deficits are sustainable and inflation has a life of its own
Project Syndicate
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India’s Democratic Dictatorship
Under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, India’s character is being transformed by a government with no regard for institutions, understandings, and conventions maintained since independence. If this trend continues, India may well soon cease to be the country which Mahatma Gandhi struggled to free. NEW DELHI – Amid much fanfare, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government has completed a...
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Who Benefits from False Climate Solutions?
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Joining the Technological Frontiers
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The Amazon and You
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The Meritocracy Muddle
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How Pooling Can Beat Stunting
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Will the IMF Finally Learn From Argentina?
Paul Krugman
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Republicans Don’t Believe in Democracy
Item: Last week Republicans in the North Carolina House used the occasion of 9/11 to call a surprise vote, passing a budget bill with a supermajority to override the Democratic governor’s veto. They were able to do this only because most Democrats were absent, some of them attending commemorative events; the Democratic leader had advised members that they didn’t need to be present because, he says, he was assured there would be no votes that...
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Trump Hits the Panic Button
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La muerte acelerada de la democracia estadounidense
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How Democracy Dies, American-Style
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Trumpism Is Bad for Business
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The Great Tax Break Heist
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The Frauding of America’s Farmers
Noah Smith
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Why Kevin Williamson is wrong about poverty and bad behavior
I recently wrote a post at Bloomberg Opinion arguing that "bad behavior" - drug use, violence, single parenthood, and idleness - is not the main cause of poverty in advanced nations. As evidence, I cited the country of Japan, which has extremely low rates of drug use, violence, single parenthood, and idleness, and yet which has a poverty rate almost as high as that of the U.S., and significantly higher than those of wealthy European...
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The Middle Eastern Thirty Years War?
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Examining an MMT model in detail
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Where should Americans live if they live abroad?
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Guest post: Roy Bahat on Uber, Lyft, and the future of work
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A proposal for an Alternative Green New Deal
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Book Review: The Revolt of the Public, by Martin Gurri
Offsetting Behaviour
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Keeping up with the state of play on vaping
I was looking around the other day for something like this. The Competitive Enterprise Institute has started tallying up all the reported cases of 'vaping-related' illness in the US.THC-vaping, and especially illicit vape cartridges, feature prominently, but there are other cases where that's not yet pinned down. As Dr. Konstantinos Farsalinos, a cardiologist, recently wrote, a sudden outbreak in a short period of time and in a specific...
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Explaining the Outside of the Asylum
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Job Openings for Economists – Spotify edition
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A rubbish clean-up
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Minimum wages and piece-rate work
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Radio NZ on vaping, again
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The Joyful Contrarian
Microeconomic Insights
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When Fewer Options are Better for Consumers: The Benefits of Narrow Health Insurance Networks
Summary Should health insurers be required to allow their enrollees to visit any hospital or doctor? Many insurers limit enrollees to “in-network” medical providers, forcing them to pay significant “out-of-network” costs if they seek care elsewhere. Our research examines the role that limited medical provider networks play in the U.S. commercial healthcare market and measures both their...
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Providing low-cost labor market information to assist jobseekers
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Subsidizing health insurance for low-income adults: evidence from Massachusetts
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Understanding the Average Impact of Microcredit
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Nominal wage rigidity in village labor markets: evidence from India
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Market power and the Laffer curve
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How management practices drive firms’ performance in the long run: evidence from the Marshall Plan
Miles Kimball
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Angus Deaton: What Do Self-Reports of Wellbeing Say about Life-Cycle Theory and Policy?
J Public Econ. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2019 Jun 1.Published in final edited form as:PMCID: PMC6135248NIHMSID: NIHMS946627The publisher's final edited version of this article is available at J Public EconAbstractI respond to Atkinson’s plea to revive welfare economics, and to considering alternative ethical frameworks when making policy recommendations. I examine a measure of self-reported evaluative wellbeing, the Cantril Ladder,...
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Chris Kimball: The Language of Doubt
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Noah Smith on Blocking Twitter Trolls
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Making the Monopsony Argument for Minimum Wages More Evidence-Based—José Azar, Emiliano Huet-Vaughn, Ioana Elena Marinescu, Bledi Taska and Till Von Wachter
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In Honor of Martin Weitzman
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Students Feel as if They Learn More from Lectures, But They Actually Score Higher on Tests Following Active Learning Sessions
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Less Than 6 or More than 9 Hours of Sleep Signals a Higher Risk of Heart Attacks
Miles Corak: Economics for public policy
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Intergenerational mobility between and within Canada and the United States
Intergenerational mobility is lower in the United States than in Canada, but the border only partially distinguishes the two countries with mobility varying significantly within each. The within-country differences and similarities hint at some of the reasons why the United States has lower social mobility than many other rich countries. This is the main theme of a study released by the National Bureau of Economic Research, based upon Canadian...
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The “middle class” is within easier reach for low income Canadian children, than it is for low income Americans
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If there is such a thing as the “Canadian Dream,” it would look very much like what Americans say is the “American Dream”
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Equality of opportunity is a choice
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Rest in peace Alan Krueger
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The changing nature of work calls for enhancing the human and financial capital of children in less wealthy families
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Canada’s Poverty Reduction Strategy adopts the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal to end poverty
Mark Thoma
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Links (9/13/19)
How we make decisions depends on how uncertain we are - EurekAlert!A new Dartmouth study on how we use reward information for making choices shows how humans and monkeys adopt their decision-making strategies depending on the uncertainty of information present. The results of this study illustrated that for a simple gamble to obtain a reward, when the magnitude or amount of the reward is known but the probability of the reward is unknown and...
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Links (8/23/19)
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Summer is Here
Managerial Econ
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Is competition among colleges becoming fiercer?
The NY Times Magazine outlines the tradeoffs that make it difficult for college admissions departments to admit deserving students and pay the bills: ...two structural factors that make life difficult for enrollment managers who want to admit more low-income students. The first factor is the simple need for tuition revenue. Unless colleges can reduce their costs, it is going to be difficult for them to resist the lure of wealthy students who...
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How do politicians promote policies with a straight face?
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Is Verizon’s strategy better than AT&T’s?
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REPOST: The force that Porter forgot
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Why is Warren Buffet finally investing in airlines?
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I loved the concert, but did the money do any good?
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TED Talk: How not to be ignorant about the world
Macro and Other Market Musings
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Some Assorted Macro Musings
Dollar Dominance I have been part of a dollar dominance conversation for the past few weeks. It started with my NRO article, discussions on the topic at the Jackson Hole conference, and a follow-up blog post. Later, there were twitter conversations, an interview on Bloomberg TV, and several podcast recordings. This all culminated in an article I wrote for The Bridge that summarizes what I see as the main issues of dollar dominance and what...
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More on the U.S. as a Banker to the World
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New Articles on NGDP Targeting
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Is the Fed’s Floor System Beginning to Fold?
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Is Low Inflation Really a Mystery?
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The FOMC Decision: A NGDP Perspective
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Oh, the Horror of a Corridor!
John B. Taylor
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9/11/2001 and the 18 Years Since Then
Today we remember September 11, 2001 and all that has happened in the 18 years since then. I was in a hotel room in Tokyo when the first plane hit the World Trade Center, recently sworn in as Under Secretary at Treasury. We immediately cancelled our meetings and by the next morning we were on a C-17 military jet Flying Back to Treasury on 9/11. When we got back, the city was on alert. DC was a logical place for another attack, and the secret...
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Economics 1: Now More Important Than Ever
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Choice of IMF Managing Director Should Reflect 75 Years of Change
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A Beautiful Model Now Questioned
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Central Bank Independence Is Not Enough
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Africa Meeting of Econometricians: History, Revival and Ways Forward
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A Decade of July 4th Debt Explosions: Are They Getting Less Spectacular?
John Cochrane – Grumpy Economist
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Bans on fracking and nuclear power
If you want evidence that climate policy has become unhinged from science and quantification, becoming more like a religious cult, look no further than the recent Democratic presidential candidates' proposals to ban fracking immediately and nuclear power soon.From Michael Cembalest at JP MorganI'm not a denier. Yes, carbon is a problem, warming is a problem, ...
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More on low long-term interest rates
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Intellectual property and the trade deficit
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Low bond yields
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Why stop at 100? The case for perpetuities
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Summers tweet stream on secular stagnation
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Inflation, and history
Leisure of the Theory Class
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The game theory of the electoral threshold
The game theory of the electoral threshold April 7, 2019 in Uncategorized Israel is holding an election Tuesday. It’s a multi-party system in Israel, based on proportional representation, and the main battle is between two blocs of parties. We call them the left-wing bloc and the right-wing bloc, and civics textbooks will tell you that this division is about policy: the Arab-Israeli conflict, economics and the role of religion. But...
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Institute for Wow
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New Linear Algebra Division
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A New Business Idea
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Arms and Projects
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Weber’s proof of Gittins Index Theorem
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Samuelson on Linear Programming
Jeffrey Frankel’s Blog
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Median income flattens
TweetSept. 10, 2019 — Median real household income is the most useful single measure of the extent to which the typical American family has shared in GDP gains. The latest annual number, released today by the Census Bureau, confirms the answer that many had suspected: the typical family has not experienced a statistically significant rise in income. The gains have, rather, gone to those at the top of the income distribution. Median...
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RMB reaches 7.0; US names China a manipulator
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Parallel to US-China trade war, Japan & Korea fall out
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Trump escalates China trade war
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Let’s Forget about 2% Inflation
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Tenth birthday of the June 2009 recovery
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Remembering Martin Feldstein
Global Economic Intersection
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The Economist Magazine, Marxism And The Conventional Wisdom
Posted on 19 September 2019 by Philip Pilkington Inn September 2013 there was a rather awful piece from The Economist‘s entitled A Marxist Theory is (Sort Of) Right. The piece is indicative of what I think to be a far more general trend in contemporary intellectual life: namely, the fact that Marxism exists as a sort of weird counterpart to what we generally call the ‘conventional wisdom’.Please share this article - Go to very top of page,...
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What Will The Conventional Wisdom In Economics Be After 2008?
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Nonfarm Payrolls Not Seasonally Adjusted Tell The Real Story – Unspinning Wall Street
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What The August BLS Headline Miss Did Not Tell You
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Dalio’s Analogue And Mauldin’s Commentary
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Global Outlook: Deflation Is Back… But
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Impact Of Financialization On Labor
FT Alphaville
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Lookout, there’s a dollar crunch!
As Zoltan Pozsar of Credit Suisse warned a couple of weeks ago, the combination of a glut of safe assets in the market, plus a Fed still intent on keeping monetary policy tight, has been feeding through to repo markets in the form of volatility.But now we have this (hat tip to Marc Ostwald from ADMISI for the chart): That’s a relatively wild spike in US general collateral repo rates to as much as 8.25 per cent at the open, at a bid/offer...
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A Plymouth student property proposition
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Saudi attacks: keep an eye on the lira
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Forget trade war, a 20% move implies real war
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BenevolentAI gets cut in half
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Further reading
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Thought for the weekend
Economonitor
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How Syria’s Gross Mismanagement of Water is Critical Factor Leading to Civil War
Drought, food insecurity, migration, social unrest and Assad's indifference fuel conflict Dr. Leif Rosenberger, Chief Economist, ACERTAS Introduction On 14 March 2011 international security analysts were predicting that Syria was stable and immune from Arab Spring. [1] The next day the Syrian civil war erupted and has been going strong ever since then. What went wrong? What did the “realists” miss? [2] In thinking about the Syrian civil war...
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Oman’s Make or Break Economic Transition
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Fed Monetary Policy, Inverted Yield Curve and US and Global Economic Outlooks
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Argentina’s half-baked adjustment has not worked
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Brazil must hold to structural reforms while undergoing slow economic recovery
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Natural Wealth and Economic Growth: The Case of Sub-Saharan Africa
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No Quick Fix for Ghana’s Economic Challenges
Donald Marron
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Should Congress Use The Income Tax To Discourage Consumer Drug Ads?
Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and a score of Democratic cosponsors want to use the tax code to discourage direct-to-consumer advertising by drug companies. Their bill, the End Taxpayer Subsidies for Drug Ads Act, would prohibit firms from taking tax deductions for any consumer advertising of prescription drugs. Limiting tax deductions is a blunt and arbitrary way of approaching a legitimate concern. Consumer drug ads play an important role in...
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Should Congress Use The Income Tax To Discourage Consumer Drug Ads?
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Designing Carbon Dividends
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Designing Carbon Dividends
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Three Things You Should Know about the Buyback Furor
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Three Things You Should Know about the Buyback Furor
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Talking Money, Inflation, Fiat, & Bitcoin
Cyril Morong: Dangerous Economist
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Why Doing Good Makes It Easier to Be Bad
By Abbas Panjwani. He is a journalist at Full Fact, the UK’s leading fact-checking charity. He has previously written for the Sunday Times.Adam Smith's "invisible hand" suggests that if you follow your own self interest, you will promote the interests of society. I have had some posts on this issue of being selfish vs. being altruistic and if they can actually be separated before. So those links are at the end.But this article...
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How Technology Has Changed The Distribution Of Income Among Musicians
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Another Semester Has Started
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The benefits of utilizing markets in the U.S.
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New Braunfels businesses fooled into taking movie money
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Can scientific thinking help entrepreneurs?
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College Still Pays Off, but Not for Everyone
Greg Mankiw
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Should grad students teach?
A student emails me a question: Dear Prof. Mankiw, I am in the first week of my PhD in economics. I follow your blog and I have read the advice you have posted for graduate students. I have heard competing hypotheses about whether PhD students should teach during their studies. On one hand, teaching is a great experience and a CV-builder for hopeful future academics. On the other hand, teaching is a lot of work, and the opportunity cost...
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Writing Advice
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News from Amazon
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Macro Policy Seminar
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The Inflation-Unemployment Tradeoff
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Competing with Shakespeare
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Demand Curves Slope Downward (even for socialists)
Ben Bernanke
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Evaluating lower-for-longer policies: Temporary price-level targeting
By Ben S. Bernanke Despite a long and sustained recovery from the Great Recession, a number of factors—including an aging population, slow productivity growth, and subdued inflation—continue to exert downward pressure on U.S. interest rates. It seems likely that even when monetary policy is at a neutral setting, neither restraining nor stimulating the economy, interest rates will remain significantly lower than in recent decades. One...
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The housing bubble, the credit crunch, and the Great Recession: A reply to Paul Krugman
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Financial panic and credit disruptions in the 2007-09 crisis
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Temporary price-level targeting: An alternative framework for monetary policy
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When growth is not enough
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Some reflections on Japanese monetary policy
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The zero lower bound on interest rates: How should the Fed respond?
Carola Binder: Quantitative Ease
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Central Banking Stories to Watch in 2019
Happy New Year, everybody! 2018 has been a quiet year for my blog, but productive on other fronts, as I've kept busy with research and my family. But here are a few central bank-related stories I'm interested in following in the new year. 1. New Governor at Reserve Bank of IndiaFollowing the early exit of Governor Urjit Patel in December, Prime Minister Modi appointed the third central bank governor in just three years: Shaktikanta Das....
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Inflation Expectations and the Price at the Pump
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“Macroeconomic Research, Present and Past”
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From Senior Thesis to Publication
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Snapshot of the Publication and Review Process as an Assistant Professor
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Mortgage-Backed Securities Ratings and Losses Maybe Not So Bad
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D is for Devastating: A Statistical Error and the Vitamin D Saga
Free Exchange Economist
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Richard Thaler’s work demonstrates why economics is hard
RICHARD THALER has won the Nobel prize in economic sciences this year for his contributions to behavioural economics. It's a well-deserved prize and a clarifying one, as far as economics is concerned. For a very long time, economists hoped to treat individuals a bit like particles in physics, whose activity can be described by a few well-understood rules, which allow researchers to model and understand complex interactions between particles....
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The case against shrinking the Fed’s balance-sheet
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The hubris of ten-year budgets
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Bitcoin is fiat money, too
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How to interpret a market plunge
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Podcast: Vorsprung durch Angst
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Has BRICS lived up to expectations?
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Jared Bernstein: On the economy
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The media cannot reform itself until it acknowledges its power
As regular readers know, I have for the last few years been banging on about the importance of the media in influencing public opinion. (It formed a key part of my SPERI/News Statesman prize lecture.) It is not a partisan point about whether the media is politically biased in a particular direction. Instead it is a claim that the media can and sometimes is profoundly important in influencing major political events. I think it is fair to say...
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How Brexit will constrain a future Labour government
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Is a flexible labour market a problem for central bankers?
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Brexit and Democracy
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The UK slowdown is a result of Brexit and austerity
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Why Owen Jones is wrong about Brexit
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Lexit
Josh Hendrickson: Everyday Economist
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A Simple Lesson About Money and Models
Imagine you are in your high school algebra class and you are presented with the following two equations: Two linear equations with 2 unknowns. This is a simple problem to solve. Now suppose that your teacher gives you the following three equations: Note that this is still a simple problem to solve. The first two equations are identical to the previous example. You can use those first two equations to solve for x and y. Then, knowing x, you...
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Macro Musings
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Updates
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Monetary Policy as a Jobs Guarantee
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How Did the Gold Standard Work? Part 1: The Efficiency of the Gold Standard
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Towards an Alchian-type Approach to Political Economy
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The Sleight-of-Hand of Olson-esque Public Choice
Owen Zidar
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Who were the top taxpayers in 1923?
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Trump won in counties that lost jobs to China and Mexico
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The Effect of Pension Income on Elderly Earnings: Evidence from Social Security and Full Population Data
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Why Retire When You Can Work? Hours are way up for elderly workers
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Zip-code Economics
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Financial firms make large share of pass-through income
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Pass-through income and the top 1%
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Peterson Institute
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The media cannot reform itself until it acknowledges its power
As regular readers know, I have for the last few years been banging on about the importance of the media in influencing public opinion. (It formed a key part of my SPERI/News Statesman prize lecture.) It is not a partisan point about whether the media is politically biased in a particular direction. Instead it is a claim that the media can and sometimes is profoundly important in influencing major political events. I think it is fair to say...
Read more » -
How Brexit will constrain a future Labour government
-
Is a flexible labour market a problem for central bankers?
-
Brexit and Democracy
-
The UK slowdown is a result of Brexit and austerity
-
Why Owen Jones is wrong about Brexit
-
Lexit
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Telegraph Blog
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The media cannot reform itself until it acknowledges its power
As regular readers know, I have for the last few years been banging on about the importance of the media in influencing public opinion. (It formed a key part of my SPERI/News Statesman prize lecture.) It is not a partisan point about whether the media is politically biased in a particular direction. Instead it is a claim that the media can and sometimes is profoundly important in influencing major political events. I think it is fair to say...
Read more » -
How Brexit will constrain a future Labour government
-
Is a flexible labour market a problem for central bankers?
-
Brexit and Democracy
-
The UK slowdown is a result of Brexit and austerity
-
Why Owen Jones is wrong about Brexit
-
Lexit