Jagdish Bhagwati is a poster child for multiple intelligences. He is famous for having manipulated the equations of neoclassical trade theo...

to get a job at the New York Times . In an article about broadband adoption , after a reference to Finland’s promise to extend 100 Mbps ser...

The Wall Street Journal posted a story about Orange County's pension fund, gloating that it outperformed the supposedly union dominated ...

A half-century ago, John Kenneth Galbraith had a marvelous description of the shaping of language regarding crises. Galbraith, John Kenneth....

No - this quote : I have long believed that stock markets are the best barometer of the health, wealth and security of a nation. And today...

Eric Zimmerman watches MSNBC's Morning Joe so we don’t have to: "The public option would be problematic," Snowe told MSNBC...

Today is 100th anniversary of the birth of Art Tatum, who was certainly the best jazz pianist to ever walk the earth. I lifted the title fro...

I am not going to link to the obnoxious economicsjobmarketrumor blog, where lots of grad students supposedly seeking jobs have been savagely...

There is much to endorse in the innards of the argument made by Matthias Doepke and Fabrizio Zilibotti in their recent post on Vox EU . Yes...

I made a lot of predictions about the Econ Nobel (noticed Williamson and said environmental, which Ostrom is, at least partly). However, one...

I can understand the attraction of an unconstrained lust for profit and power, but I am puzzled by the stupidity of its practitioners. I...

by the Sandwichman Paul Krugman: There was an old tradition of economics that focused on the origins and nature of economic institutions. Th...

Bravo to the Swedes for selecting Oliver Williamson and Elinor Ostrom as econ Nobellers. (Nobellians? Nobelistas?) Williamson was on ever...

When I was a little kid I liked the picture puzzles that asked you to find all the mistakes—the dog with three ears, the plant growing upsid...

There is much that Obama is doing that is not particularly peaceful. However, I think that the strongest argument for him deserving it is i...