OK, someone has to do it.  There was a dreadful column on tax policy in today’s New York Times, and none of the usual suspects (Dean, where...

Dean Baker writes: The time has long since passed when we should be arguing about whether global warming is happening or whether the conse...

Dean Baker: "We could try to get to full employment with shorter work weeks and years, through measures such as work sharing, paid fa...

Back in July, I posted  Sandwichman's Lump-of-Labor Odyssey  with the intention of posting a second installment. The next day, I left fo...

Hi folks. This blog has been bereft of representation from one crucial constituency, the UnDead. Of course, undead economists are discusse...

This post's title refers to Adam Posen's blog post  about the keynote address by Larry Summers: "Is It (just) Hysteresis? Disen...

Economic theorist Herbert Scarf recently died.  There have been a number of blog posts about him and his work.  A good one is by Tim Taylor ...

A group of economists is circulating a document called Rebooting the Eurozone: Step 1 – Agreeing a Crisis Narrative .  (Their on is off.)  I...

Since the last Democratic presidential candidates' debate last on Saturday, I have been thinking about what is the proper term for those...

According to the Wall Street Urinal : Immigration was also a flashpoint, with Ted Cruz slip-streaming Mr. Trump as an ardent restrictionis...

Having devoted EconoSpeak space to an argument by Thomas Shearman, a follower of Henry George, it is only fair and balanced to present the c...

Again with the damned  robots . When it comes to robots, etymology matters. Czech playwright Karel Čapek's brother suggested the name to...

An excerpt from The New Yorke r : A huge, complicated machine, connected to the operating table, with many tubes and wires, began at this ...

What kind of "civil dialogue" is making up a nasty thing that somebody never said and attributing it to them? What kind of patholo...

No, nobody in today's Washington Post Outlook section devoted to the boomers said that first line, although it has become a commonplace ...