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Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Billie Holiday was born on this day in 1915

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She's so sublime, words that I write of her rhyme.   Here she is with Lester: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3gXc1fybYs&list=PLB...
Monday, April 6, 2015

Revised Job Data Survey

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Here is a revised version of the data interpretation survey. I have edited the graph and the survey to (hopefully) get rid of ambiguities. I...
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North Korea, Iran, And Anti-Nuclear Weapons Policy

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Probably the biggest foreign policy blunder of the second Bush administration after the invasion of Iraq was something few think about that ...
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Friday, April 3, 2015

The Iran Nuclear Deal

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OK, so there is not a final agreement, and we do not know all the details.  But I think in the face of various individuals and groups scream...
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Thursday, April 2, 2015

Economists Discover the World!

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Jared Bernstein exclaims : "The macro blogosphere is on fire, as Bernanke, Summers, and Krugman are having a fascinating discussion......
Wednesday, April 1, 2015

Guy Standing Out In His Field

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Guy Standing on basic income: A basic income would help people be more rational, more long-term in their outlook, and more prepared to...

CCI. Son tontos todos los que lo parecen y la mitad de los que no lo parecen.

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Alzóse con el mundo la necedad, y si hay algo de sabiduría, es estulticia con la del cielo; pero el mayor necio es el que no se lo piensa y...
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Endogenous Growth on Tin-Pan Alley

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I was talking to a class about the growth of knowledge, and the trade-off , in protecting intellectual property, between creating incentives...
Monday, March 30, 2015

Middle-Sized Facts vs. IS-LMist Fundamentalism

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"So I don't care whether Hicksian IS-LM is Keynesian in the sense that Keynes himself would have approved of it, and neither shoul...
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Monetary Policy: Bernanke and Yellen v. Taylor

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The economist bloggers should all rejoice the fact that Ben Bernanke has joined us. His first post is excellent and I will present a key q...
Sunday, March 29, 2015

Is the Economic System Self-Adjusting?

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" Second — and this plays a surprisingly big role in my own pedagogical thinking — we do want, somewhere along the way, to get across ...
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Thursday, March 26, 2015

George Will on Free Trade and the Price of a Starbucks Latte

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Dean Baker reads George Will so we don’t have to: Will seems to think that we could not get people to work hard to master skills or to be...
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Wednesday, March 25, 2015

What is a "Thought Experiment"?

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This is a thought experiment.

A new take on the gold standard?

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Keynes, in his Treatise on Money, in a footnote at the beginning of Chapter 35, referring to the love of money, as a footnote pointing t...
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Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Adam Davidson NYT Magazine Argument Clinic: Lumps of Straw

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Correcting "Debunking the Myth of the Job-Stealing Immigrant" by Adam Davidson : And yet the economic benefits of immigration m...
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