Despite my lack of faith in the "peak oil" theory, it's quite possible that oil and gas prices will continue the rest of the y...

by the Sandwichman Sandwichman is grateful to cogito for reminding us that it is far, far easier to dismiss a paradoxical truth* by rote re...

by the Sandwichman "'Well,' says a workingman, 'I should certainly be very glad to work less hours, but I can scarcely earn...

by the Sandwichman Still no nibbles on my $10,000 prize offer . More clues: "Thus their error lies in assuming that there is a fixed Wo...

I am now in Toronto for the History of Economics meetings. Lucky timing. The fires are continuing Chico. The American Red Cross Disaster ...

Slopping thinking by the great mathematician has been enshrined for decades in the undergraduate economics and statistics curriculum. You k...

I'm linking to a nice paper [Nicola Giocoli: Three Alternative (?) Stories on the Late 20th-Century Rise of Game Theory ] asking about t...

Oil prices are very high and moving higher. In Asia and Europe there have been large protest actions, while the popular response in the US ...

by the Sandwichman From the 1865 pamphlet A REDUCTION OF HOURS AN INCREASE OF WAGES by Ira Steward: Many things can be done for self, famil...

So I take a tour around the economic blogosphere. What do I find: Delong pointing to Weintraub trashing Steve Marglin's new book. Tyler...

by the Sandwichman There is no such thing.

This is June 16th, the day recounted in Joyce's Ulysses . I named my daughter Molly after the fictional Molly Bloom. Happy Bloomsday, M...

It’s been two weeks since I put out a challenge to proponents and practitioners of computable general equilibrium (CGE) models. As you may ...

There is a lot I could jump on in Roger Lowenstein’s witless diatribe in today’s New York Times Sunday Magazine, but let’s keep it simple. ...