by the Sandwichman At the "Library of Economics and Liberty" blog, Bryan Caplan, an Associate Professor of Economics at George Ma...

Ryan Grim at the Huffpost has set off a buzz by claiming that the Federal Reserve exercises undo influence over the economics profession. ...

by the Sandwichman My earlier message on kurzarbeit drew a response from Jon Messenger of the ILO who wrote a policy brief on work sharing ...

From the Financial Times (via Andrew Jackson at the Progressive Economics Forum ) Official models missed the crisis not because the conditio...

by the Sandwichman The Ecologist features an article by Ewan Kingston making the environmental case for work time reduction.

2009 – September 8th. Option ARM Disaster Arrival: Mortgages More Problematic than Originally Thought. $134 Billion Recasting in Next Two Y...

From this morning's Globe and Mail : While other countries were bailing out major companies by purchasing their shares and debt or takin...

Since this is about economics, the answer has to be “Yes and No”, and in fact it is. I won’t rehash his points; if you haven’t already read ...

[Preliminary ramblings and portents of the Southern hemisphere Summer approaching.] At our local seaside the sea level is rising and undermi...

by the Sandwichman "It was a hodgepodge of unsupported arguments, outright mistakes, and impenetrable jargon designed to 'test...

One of the keys to Green Technology may be buried in China. It has only recently begun to appear in the media, but for very different reason...

We used to hear about "actually existing socialism," which was neither as bad as its worst critics said nor as good as its biggest...

I am talking about the late Senator Edward M. Kennedy. While some hoped that his death would inspire a push to achieve his lifelong passion...

The story is told of a Australian whose favorite hobby is ballooning who decided to practice her favourite sport one Sunday afternoon. She m...

Pocock, Thomas Love. 1825. "Pan in Town." In The works of Thomas Love Peacock: including his novels, poems (London: R. Bentley and...