There is quite a bit of buzz about this just-prepublished article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences .  Here is the ab...

Maybe. The reason is that Iran is having parliamentary elections this Friday, something barely noticed in most US media. This means that j...

Toledo, Ohio, where I reside, is an old Rust Belt city with bragging rights over very little. Two exceptions are: this is the city that pr...

Dean Baker has a good put down of an article in the New York Times that tries to claim there is a shortage of rental housing. The one pie...

Actually, this op-ed endorsed Mitt Romney to be our next President. There was one paragraph that actually made sense: We disagree with Rom...

Martin Khor has made a career of fashioning progressive arguments in favor of developing country business interests. His latest tack is to ...

Noah Smith has an excellent post on the political biases baked into conventional macroeconomic models , especially DSGE. His view that the p...

Juan Cole is listing 10 reasons why the US sanctions against Iran making money from exporting oil are not working at http://www.juancole.com...

A pattern I find disturbing is that much of the left, at least in the English-speaking world, regards economics simply as a source of intell...

Barry Schwartz argues in this morning’s New York Times that capitalism is all about efficiency, and the problem is that too much efficien...

From the abstract for "Your Right Arm for a Publication in AER?" by Arthur E. Attema, Werner Brouwer and Job Van Exel: The time...

Readers of EconoSpeak with very good memories may recall that I raised this issue in late 07/early 08 (see here and here ).  Now Karl Smit...

So, Mark Thoma has Tim Duy on again, http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2012/02/fed-watch-again-with-potential-output.html , w...

Certain diehard believers of the Laugher Curve likely enjoyed Jerry Bowyer’s The Bush Boom thinking that the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts lead to...

Not as far behind the curve as usual (less than a year), I just finished reading Poor Economics by Banerjee and Duflo.  It’s well-written ...