1) Declare the debt ceiling unconstitutional and keep on borrowing. Bruce Bartlett, Bill Clnton, and I support this one, based on Section ...

So, nobody at all is responding to my and Moody's call to abolish the debt ceiling, and probably nobody is going to follow up on the sem...

This actually dates back to July 18, but has somehow gotten nearly zero coverage in the MSM, somewhat like Bill Clinton's argument that ...

Josh Marshall on the debt ceiling impasse: "Yes, it's a game of chicken. But one of the cars doesn't have a driver in it."

It’s easy to forget that the vast majority of Americans don’t read econ blogs and know almost nothing about economics. From time to time it...

It was nearly a week ago on Monday evening when Bill Clinton gave an interview to the National Memo, http://www.nationalmemo.com/article/exc...

In my new book, Sex, Lies and Economics, about early economics of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, one of the constant t...

Let’s suppose for a moment that all this talk about ideology—about the evils of big government, the flood of debt that threatens our moral a...

So, the latest rumblings are that Obama and Boehner may be near a deal, but if they are not, or if it will not pass in time, there may be an...

Garry Kasparov not withstanding, life is not much like chess, but sometimes the wisdom of one does rub off on the other. One thing I learn...

The House of Representatives passed the “Cut, Cap, and Balance” Act, which Brian Beutler says (if it became law) would slash federal progra...

I once wrote a book entitled (partly) _From Catastrophe to Chaos_, which my interviewer on the NPR show kept mentioning. However, the way t...

From the abstract to “Student Attitudes and Knowledge Change in an Introductory College Economics Course” : Students’ attitudes towards econ...

While education wonks debate microscopic movements in the NAEP and other standardized measurements of student learning, those of us who care...

Schumpeter, Joseph A. 1954. "The Economic Crisis of the Tax State." International Economic Papers, 4; reprinted in Schumpeter, Jos...