Noah Smith has put up in five installments and now as a whole a review of _Big Ideas in Macroeconomics_  by Kartik Athreya.  He had previou...

So, everybody in the media, including in today's WaPo the usually super-well-informed, David Ignatius, has been declaring that the invas...

The drumbeat of old neocons neoconning again in the face of the victories by ISIS/ISIL in Iraq.  It is Richard Cohen's turn today to blo...

Ah yes, good old Washington Post editorial page editor, Fred Hiatt, is at it again, all over President Obama for his unwillingness to run ar...

The Commonwealth Fund released its latest report noting that the U.S. spends more per capita on its health care system but underperforms in...

Whether Governor Christie was behind the closing of the George Washington Bridge has taken a back seat to some local reporting on a Security...

The headline of Tyler Cowen's Upshot piece, " The Lack of Major Wars May Be Hurting Economic Growth " is calculated to provoke...

Today in the Washington Post, George Will began his column remarking on how Congressman Robert Goodlatte (R-VA) said in the wake of David Br...

I likely would not get much of an argument from most sensible people if I suggested that U.S. based multinationals have shifted a lot of pro...

As probably just about everybody reading this by now knows, the Republican Majority Leader of the US House of Representatives, Eric Cantor, ...

In 1978 Paul Davidson and the late Sidney Weintraub co-founded the Journal of Post Keynesian Economics.  It has been announced that Davidson...

"...unless one regards envy as a virtue," writes Lawrence H. Summers in a column at the Financial Times , "the primary reason...

I just happened to notice a car with an Arkansas license plate, upon which we find Arkansas touted as "THE NATURAL STATE." Not qui...

Today Petro Poroshenko was sworn in as the new president of Ukraine.  He is promising to retake military control of the two breakaway region...

Mark Thoma links to Joseph Stiglitz's TIGER Forum 2014 lecture on "Creating a Learning Society": Is our society lear...