I just finished a draft of paper regarding the exclusion of the concept of power in economic theory. Any comments will be appreciated. ...

Laurence Kotlikoff has put forth 5 proposals to get us closer to full employment. Proposal #4 – “get prices and wages unstuck” – has alre...

Congratulations (maybe) to the Opera (Oscillation Project with Emulsion-Tracking Apparatus) team for their (possibly) revolutionary finding...

I guess private citizens don’t have the right to express their own views on tax policy without the Republican Party demanding to see their t...

Brian Beutler reports on a good idea from 11 Democratic Senators: The idea here is to require CBO to analyze the Super Committee bill's...

I suppose it’s nice that Hallmark now has a line of cards you can send someone who’s been laid off .  A word of caution, however: don’t send...

I have blogged previously on this obscure and odd topic, but staying in Europe for extended periods as I am doing now (based in Florence, It...

I rarely bother to read grand theories of economics (or politics or history) that fit into a blog post or even a short essay.  How likely i...

Nocera has a wide-eyed piece in this morning’s New York Times that touts a presentation by Paul Kasriel , an economist with Northern Trust...

M.S. writing for The Economist notes: Up until about 2007, the goal of such attacks was clear: conservatives wanted to replace it with a Ch...

After venting on such peripheral matters as the fate of the global economy and the relationship between power and policy, I think it’s time...

This morning’s blogpile brought wise words from Jeffry Frieden about the Eurozone crisis.  If you haven’t read it, follow this link straig...

This from a review by Beverly Gage of Michael Kazin’s book, American Dreamers: How the Left Changed a Nation : The left is in crisis bec...

Even though most industrialized economies are groaning under stagnant growth and high unemployment, elite opinion has it that the really im...

Over at Econbrowser, James Hamilton argues that environmental regulation may be a job-killer after all .  There are two themes: the first i...