The litany of shorter work week prophecy is prodigious. Keynes famously predicted a 15-hour work week for "our grandchildren" in 1...

Offhand it looks like maybe it is.  In the US Trump won overwhelmingly in rural areas while losing all of the largest cities.  Yes, he took ...

Responding to my post chastising Woodford for (in effect) assuming that housing prices prior to the unwinding contained no bubble component,...

I have for a long time thought the Financial Times to be the best newspaper in the world, but now I am going to play Dean Baker beating the ...

Thus spake Jeffrey Sachs in January 1994 at the ASSA/AEA meetings shortly after the Solidarity government of Lech Walesa was defeated in an ...

I have been teaching Michael Woodford's "Financial Intermediation and Macroeconomic Analysis" (JEP) in my money and banking cl...

Repeat after me: The world is not a zero-sum game. Technology often creates more jobs than it destroys. The number of jobs in the economy d...

The big surprise in the Turkish referendum to make Turkey a presidential system was not that Erdogan's side won, but that it was close e...

It was actually quite amusing to see an article in my provincial newspaper a while back where two sides were arguing about a reduction ...

Frik Els wrote last year on what on the surface might seem as good news for Zambia: Last week Glencore announced plans to invest more than...

At Noahpinion : A lot of people have trouble wrapping their heads around the idea that the basic "Econ 101" model - the undiffer...

Reuters reports: President Donald Trump plans to revive the hobbled Export-Import Bank of the United States, his office said, a victory fo...

Given that Trumpfreakout may guarantee relatively pro-EU politicians winning in France and Germany in the near term (France less certain tha...

September 22, 1956 November 7, 1960 QUESTION. This is from Mr. White, Warren, Mich.  What is your stand on the 32-hour workweek? ...

This is a bragging post, how I was right all along in numerous venues, if not in a full-blown post, about what would happen to the US-Russia...