David Brooks hearts the governor of Indiana: Since 2004, the 49 other states in the nation increased their debt levels by an average of 40 ...

The Eastern Economic Association held its annual meeting in New York this past weekend, and on Friday Paul Krugman delivered the presidentia...

One of the knocks on collective bargaining is that employers should be able to pay people what they are worth. An interesting example of th...

In case you were wondering whether globalization had erased the division between the colonizer and the colonized, you can relax: the old ord...

Disagreements over the role of unions usually come down to this: do you believe that managers normally make the right decisions over how to ...

There are two longstanding narratives in economics about trade. 1. Trade is about comparative advantage. Two people or communities that spe...

Kash Mansori has resumed his economist blogging – something that makes all economist bloggers better off. Welcome back and thanks for makin...

Several commentators have remarked about the sudden outbreak of class struggle in the United States. I see the brutal behavior of the state...

With the end of unions, what can we do to help those good people who provide strike breakers? http://www.modernindustrialservices.com/

An ongoing meme of those supporting Governor Walker's efforts to crush public unions in Wisconsin is the repeated claims that public wor...

Peter mentioned that he wrote a book on the value of a statistical life. I wrote about the subject in two books, neither of which were excl...

I am watching the Ed Show, which is coming out of my hold hometown of Madison, Wisconsin. Big crowds are at the Capitol Square. Not sure h...

Some economic ideas thrive only in the darkness: they are simply too weird and half-baked to withstand public scrutiny. Perhaps no concept ...

A lot of folks are giving our President credit for this : Now, you talked about Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. The truth is Social...

Ed O’Keefe gets the facts right. Federal employment in 2010 was 2.65 million as compared to 2.63 million in 2002. As he notes, Federal em...