Mark Thoma at economists view links to a posting at Open Economics about the latest situation at Notre Dame University regarding its economi...

by the Sandwichman Anonymous in the comments suggests folks are not getting what the Sandwichman is trying to say because S. is, shall we s...

by the Sandwichman And it is well that nature imposes upon us in this manner. It is this deception which rouses and keeps in continual motio...

Brian Beutler thinks much of the press is confused about what Defense Secretary Gates and President Obama want to do with the Defense Depar...

Another industrial burn of native forest. The South Esk catchment in Tasmania this month. Picture taken by Rob Blakers. Last week Barkley Ro...

"During his senior year of college, Summers was considering graduate school in both theoretical physics and economics. For weeks, he an...

The New York Times has a follow-on story that tracks Larry’s career in exile, when he was a celebrity part-timer at the Shaw hedge fund. ...

I thought Robert Lucas had a very strong grasp of macroeconomics – maybe not: But, if we do build the bridge by taking tax money away from ...

by the Sandwichman Having proposed the counter-narrative to Economic Man, I will now undertake to test it rigorously and exhaustively by ex...

Casual readers of the press might be put off by the fact that Larry Summers received $2.7 million last year just for giving speeches, inclu...

BLS reports: Nonfarm payroll employment continued to decline sharply in March (-663,000), and the unemployment rate rose from 8.1 to 8.5 pe...

by the Sandwichman The problem with 'critique', as Emery Roe pointed out, is that in practice critique serves to intensify uncertain...

by the Sandwichman March unemployment wasn't as bad as the BLS reported. It was worse. The 663,000 job losses reported comes on top of ...

Behind the debate over whether GM and Chrysler should be bailed out or dispatched into bankruptcy is the curious history of the US labor mov...

How is that for a mixed pair? And what’s the connection? Ward Churchill has been suing the University of Colorado, claiming that the academ...