In " Game Theory and Cold War Rationality: A Review Essay ," Roy Weintraub reviews two recent books, The World the Game Theorists ...

I see Trump’s suggestion that the US haircut holders of treasury debt through a different lens than most observers.  Almost every year, I w...

You want MICRO foundations? In  Mathematical Biology of Social Behavior , Nicolas Rashevsky attempted "the next step" of examining...

Last fall John Cochrane argued: Sclerotic growth is the overriding economic issue of our time. From 1950 to 2000 the US economy grew at an...

Yes, it’s okay to talk about climate change right now . The devastating natural disaster in Fort McMurray is " consistent " with c...

On July 12, 2003, Kevin Williamson wrote: Draconian cuts. Indeed. This is all very good, and it deserves to become law. But it also offers...

Many thanks to Barkley for his tribute to Joan Robinson, which included this interesting line: In 1937 she wrote her influential essay on ...

Over a week ago Joan Robinson came up in connection with the ongoing controversy over Gerald Friedman's analysis of Bernie Sanders's...

Yesterday I was asked to write a comment on the debate over initiative I-732 in Washington State which would establish a revenue-neutral car...

I’ve always appreciated David Roberts’ voice in debates about climate policy.  He reads widely, looks for the strong points of arguments he ...

Paul Krugman comments on an interesting debate between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton: So Sanders and Clinton are arguing about soda t...

One of the debates among the Democrats is how much to raise the minimum wage. The President wants it near $10 an hour, Mrs. Clinton is talki...

In a large multiplayer prisoner’s dilemma, any change in any one individual’s strategy doesn’t affect anyone else, so a player can know tha...

I was curious what Bernie Sanders meant on Meet the Press yesterday with his line about how it was too late for “establishment economists”. ...

Noah Smith says I got mad at Gerald Friedman. What makes me mad are cheap shots like this: Honestly why would anyone positively cite Joan...