One of the endearing features of Arthur Dahlberg's Job, Machines and Capitalism was its incorporation of an elaborate diagram that ill...

Sometime today, January 30, 2020 the plug will be pulled and the Spitzer Infrared Space Telescope will cease to operate.  It has been in ope...

With the conclusion of the Trump defense in his impeachment trial, the question arises as to which lie told by the defense is the worst? S...

In his preface to  Jobs, Machines and Capitalism, Arthur Dahlberg explained that the economic views upon which his book was based were ...

Earlier this month the New York Times ran a story about Bellingham, Washington, a picturesque town that looks out across Puget Sound t...

I keep thinking that Fox News cannot get worse, but there seems to be no bottom to how low they can go.  New lows are being exhibited in the...

I am glad that the large pro-gun rights rally in Richmond on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day end without any violence as had been threatened by ...

NPR's Planet Money went to the 2020 American Economic Association conference in San Diego where they asked economists, " what i...

There has been much hype about the signing of Phase One (and probably only) US-China trade deal.  However based on a front page story in tod...

I wish to bring out some matters not getting a lot of attention in the US media. An important one of those was reported two days ago by Ju...

We know from various Congressional folks that briefers of Congress have failed to produce any evidence of "imminent" plans to kill...

Much has been written about voters, sometimes labeled the “white working class”, who live in small towns, have low incomes and supported Tru...

I also attended the last session listed in the program at the ASSA at 2:30 on Sunday, an URPE session on "Ecology, the Environment, and...

One of the more dramatic sessions at the just-completed ASSA meetings in San Diego was an AEA panel on "Deaths from Despair and the Fut...

The first term in this choice was the title of a paper presented this morning (1/4/20) at the ACES/ASSA session at 8 AM in San Diego by Wei ...