I’m not known to praise Greg Mankiw often but this post on the Navarro nonsense was worth the read: Their analysis of trade deficits, sta...

One of the most tiresome, useless debates in economic policy is over the merits of sweatshop employment in low income countries.  On the one...

Paul Krugman and Scott Sumner focus on the trade balance discussion by Peter Navarro . After all – this part of his nonsensical writing wa...

My inbox just received a weird hodgepodge of economic claims ala Peter Navarro : Donald Trump’s economic plan proposes tax cuts, reduced re...

It seems after all that the free-trade doctrine is just a more subtle form of mercantilism. -- Joan Robinson In The Wealth of Nations, Ada...

In my previous post , I discussed Joan Robinson's objection to the concept of equilibrium as precisely the habitual mode of thought fro...

FRED notes that the employment to population ratio for men aged 25-54 was 87.5% before the Great Recession. It fell to less than 81% during...

Uneasy Money has a wonderful post on the “all models are false dodge”. Nothing really to add but I especially enjoyed this: Romer’s most e...

"Everybody except Joan Robinson agrees about capital theory." -- Robert Solow (as paraphrased by Robinson) An essential text in ...

His latest : To see why Trump is gaining on Clinton, despite his numerous flaws as a candidate, just compare their economic policy proposal...

There is this fixed quantity of whatever it is and if you get more, I get less. One man's profit is another's loss. This dogma was...

Researchers at the Karadag Nature Reserve, in Feodosia, Ukraine, recorded two Black Sea bottlenose dolphins, called Yasha and Yana, talking...

(Well, Monday is now over, but... ) Yes, Robert J. Samuelson has a column about the Fed that ignores austerity fiscal  policies and other ma...

The section on capital from Joan Robinson's 1970 review of Charles Ferguson's The Neoclassical Theory of Production and Distribution...

Larry Summers and Natasha Sarin report: Since the financial crisis, there have been major changes in the regulation of large financial ins...