Speculation cannot affect prices very much. Fear about future troubles in oil producing countries add to the price of oil. How can these two...

David Card, who always does excellent work, and John DiNardo published a nice work on the subject. Here is their conclusion: 133-40: "...

I have rewritten the introduction for my new book again, although the first chapter is unchanged. I think that the focus is much stronger. ...

The Journal article does not discuss oil, but chocolate. Even so, the article is of interest because it dismisses the idea that fundamental...

If there were any doubt that old fashioned Tory moralism is alive and well in (temporarily) Labor England, this crazy idea should dispel it...

David Warsh has posted an 8-page discussion of the conference held on May 17 at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, VA that John Horga...

In Friday's (May 23) Washington Post Business section there was a story by Frank Ahrens, "More Than 100 Post Journalists Take Buyou...

And why does Greg Mankiw endorse this stuff ? The candidates are trying to win the favor of unions and blue-collar voters in states like Oh...

The Wall Street Journal has an article suggesting that the military consumes 340,000 barrels of oil a day, compared to Iraq's 2.4 millio...

by the Sandwichman Economics textbooks throughout the first half of the 20th century -- right up to and including Paul Samuelson's widel...

Attending the conference I hosted at JMU over the weekend was the former Scientific American editor, John Horgan, who also wrote the bestsel...

Tomorrow (May 20) there will be a memorial at 4 PM at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York at 899 Tenth Avenue (west side of...

Every once in a while The American Economic Review publishes something interesting. A recent article gave pretty solid evidence that the Ci...

I have a student -- a young woman -- from Saudi Arabia. The first day she showed up in class wearing traditional headdress. Then I never n...

A few months ago, I was asked to write an article about my experiences as an undergraduate student of Wolfgang Stolper, probably based on a ...