Bob Frank is a smart guy with progressive instincts. His take on economic policy today is probably what we will see in a Democratic admini...

The Wall Street Journal has a great article about the big players in the pharmaceutical industry, showing how it is dealing with its lack of...

It is fun to push Brad Setser's words to suggest that socialism (not real socialism, but the way the public understands it -- public own...

From the Pump Handle comes this . I’m too busy to turn these findings into an economics journal article, but I’ll tell you how to do it so ...

I’m not sure why Greg Mankiw choose to peddle the latest be happy spin from Mark Perry : Gas today, even at $3, is relatively affordable an...

A few years ago I published a book The Perverse Economy: The Impact of Markets on People and Nature (NY: Palgrave, 2003), which included a s...

Today is the 100th birthday of my late father, John Barkley Rosser, Sr., who died on September 5, 1989. One can learn from his Wikipedia en...

The commentariat and many politicians have been unhappy about the prospect of war with Iran, while almost universally they have repeated the...

This article supports the NAFTA clause that lets foreign firms sue the US governments for redress of trade wrongs. The story is especially i...

Gareth Porter reports that the NIE had the news about no Iranian nuclear weapons program over a year ago in 2006, but that Cheney and Bush f...

vi: "We have not succeeded in answering all our problems. The answers we have found only serve to raise a whole set of new questions. ...

President Bush lied in his press conference just over a half an hour ago. He stated that he first learned that Iran was not pursuing a nucl...

Continuing with the discussion of elite universities, Business Week reports on the difference between elite universities and the rest. With ...

A lefty friend of mine sent me the following article [and I'm testing to see if I can finally get the formatting right on Econospeak mes...

Watching the news I have seen nothing out of Obama lately on social security, and a quick googling shows nothing visible since mid-November,...