I just posted a YouTube video discussing the Invisible Handcuffs, which comes out in two days on January 1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q...

Indeed, on today's Washington Post editorial page, Michael Gerson advises Obama to do exactly this, even as he recognizes that there is ...

This remarkable analysis has appeared on Open Economy. If you have wondered how a country can get into such a deep, deep hole, take a look...

Today is Boxing Day, which in the UK is traditionally a day that those better off put things in boxes to give to the poor, particularly the ...

On my way out as JEBO editor, I have written an essay to appear in a book of these by economics journal editors being edited by Michael Szen...

I’ve just had a look at this bracing commentary , originally posted at VoxEU and mirrored on Naked Capitalism, on the sickness at the heart ...

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Molière’s 1670 play, The Bourgeois Gentleman , presented before the court of Louis XIV, mocked a foolish, social‑climbing merchant. In hi...

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/20/business/media/20carr.html?ref=business "... Which is odd when you think about it. If you are looking...

I am going to give a talk to a Chinese delegation. I have to write up the talk in advance for the participants to have a translation to rea...

Once upon a time Douglas Holtz-Eakin was a reasonable professional economist, if of a conservative bent and clearly associated with the Repu...

Most of the discussion about the recent budget deal has been about Obama caving on failing to push for returning the top marginal income tax...

The erstwhile Tea Party Senate candidate and dabbler in the black arts, Christine O'Donnell, has proclaimed, in the wake of Obama's ...

Andrew Leonard covers the opposition to the Obama-McConnell tax deal coming from Tea Party star Michele Bachman. I’m tempted to say that h...

Out of respect for Jared Bernstein , let me open with the case that his boss (Vice President Biden) wants him to make: As this plan takes sh...