Gary Gorton has a piece floating around - I would link to if I weren't so inept - arguing that the financial crisis amounts to a classi...

Maybe a little bit, but probably not much. The spike in interest rates on ten year US bonds accompanying a "weak" sale last week ...

The buyout shops are purchasing hospitals, no doubt in a charitable effort to make health care more available. Cerberus Capital Management w...

Echoes from the Late Nineteenth Century Introduction: Constant Capital and Crises An understanding of constant capital is an overlooked, b...

After much reflection, I think I can add two more books to my "most influential" list, bringing me to my quota. Mathematical Optim...

I have such a deep respect for that profound scholar, Glenn Beck, and have been so convinced by the anti-tax arguments of his allies, the Te...

Far and away the most amazing book I've ever read is Proust's *Remembrance of Things Past* which is also on Barkley's list. I al...

Try as I might, I couldn't come up with a list of ten books that had been highly influential for me. It's odd: I do read a lot, but...

The Wall Street Journal, always on the lookout for good humor, outdid itself today with an essay by Chester E. Finn Jr., advocating keeping ...

I am quickly dashing off the text for lecture for the Campus Peace Institute. What I have is a bit rough, but I would appreciate any feedba...

Tyler Cowen over at Marginal Revolution has started a game of people listing the ten most influential books that they have read, which has s...

Today's Wall Street Journal expresses shock that China is resorting to economic nationalism, which is supposed to be the exclusive right...

So, in the office I post on Obama's picks for the Fed and comment on the district/regional bank presidents, only to come home and find a...

The retirement of Vice Chairman Donald Kohn and Obama's decision to replace him with Janet Yellen, as well as to appoint Sarah Bloom Ras...

A quote from Jean Baudrillard under one of my early paintings. How eloquently he puts my thoughts into words. "This false distance is ...