Jonathan Chait has some fun with uber-supply-sider Lawrence Kudlow which we will come back to. But first – let me offer a complaint about ...

According to Guang-Zhen Sun, "Xenophon discussed in somewhat [sic] details the sexual division of labor within a family, a topic that w...

Over at MaxSpeak , Sandwichman didn't get any response to his provocation that "human capital" was cooked up by the Chicago bo...

From the unedited transcript , "Future of Work in the Machine Age" policy forum: Third, when I was an undergraduate at MIT in th...

The Hamilton Project had an event to discuss the Future of Work in the Age of the Machine. Lawrence Summers was there, along with Robert Ru...

What economists of the 1950s and 60s disparaged with the " lump-of-labor " hand, they typically celebrated with the "inevitab...

The excerpt below presents a hypothetical example of how reducing the hours of work can create jobs without assuming a fixed amount of work...

I was not invited to the private dinner with Scott Walker but Paul Krugman notes who was on the guest list: Scott Walker, the governo...

The negotiations between Greece and the rest of the Eurogroup were largely about how far, if at all, Germany could be pulled toward compromi...

Yesterday I learned that blogs in Moscow, at least one called Energy-Life, are posting a supposed report put out by the RAND Corporation on ...

I have not asked the permission of Max of Maxspeak to post this, but I think there is a matter of public record that needs to be stated offi...

They have taken untold millions that they never toiled to earn, But without our brain and muscle not a single wheel can turn. We can brea...

As a rule , new modes of economy will lead to an increase of consumption according to a principle recognised in many parallel instances. Th...

For those who think that economics is, above all, a method and not a subject matter, the centerpiece of the whole enterprise is utility.  In...

ht "The basic story put forward to justify austerity is that a reduction in debt will generate an economic turnaround, but why have ...