An ancient bit of American folk wit asks, "If you call a tail a leg, how many legs does a cow (dog, horse, pig) have?" The answe...

The deaths within a short time of two highly respected men in their mid-90s, who both were members of the Communist Parties of their nations...

A post discussing in some detail some of the papers in the recently released inaugural issue of the Review of Behavioral Economics (ROBE), o...

"You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows." There are some facts that no amount of regression analysis...

Dean Baker has a takedown of Robert Z. Lawrence on his website today.  RZL said that reduced US fossil fuel exports can’t have an effect on...

Well, this title is a bit strong.  Robert J. Samuelson in a column yesterday in the Washington Post, "Why Bernanke fell short," do...

Heritage Foundation has a new “chief economist”? That's why Heritage's most recent hire could mark a potential return to normalcy ...

 At Angry Bear: "The assumption of a unique exogenous long run growth path absolutely does not follow from the D, S, G or E parts of ...

"It may be reading too much into recent experience, but one could also argue that under certain constraints the lump of labour falla...

Ryan Avent at the Economist : "It may be reading too much into recent experience, but one could also argue that under certain constr...

Oh, I cannot resist.  I am going to claim to be the original neologizer of the now widely used term, "econoblogosphere."  Miles Ki...

"With this I buy bread?" "You want bread? Bang a baker!" Paul Krugman wonders why don't da bunk stay debunked ?...

Multinationals of the world rejoice: The Senate, by a vote of 72–26 on Jan. 16, passed the omnibus appropriations bill (H.R. 3547) to fun...

L'offre crée sa propre demande (supply creates its own demand) does not mean the same thing as un produit terminé offre, dès cet instan...

Unfortunately this looks like a serious possibility.  I know that the entire rest of the world, with the exception of the Israeli leadership...