In today's Washington Post, intel columnist David Ignatius had a ten question multiple choice quiz about what will happen in 2022. He p...

 On Tuesday, the Russian Supreme Court ordered the dissolution of the International Memorial Foundation, the oldest human rights group in Ru...

  I may have scoffed in the past at the notion of "the marketplace of ideas" but I am coming around to think that maybe it's n...

 Something I have been dong for several years now is serving as Senior Coeditor of the Fourth Edition of the New Palgrave Dictionary of Econ...

 Yesterday was the 30th anniversary of the end of the Soviet Union.  I previously posted here about this looming anniversary, arguing that t...

 Somewhere I never saw a full version of this classic, Its a Wonderful Life, but here it is on Christmas Eve, an official Christmas classic....

 I know, I know, my part of this blog is increasingly resembling an obituary column. But, heck, people I know who are conneted to econ keep ...

In a 1967 festschrift for Maurice Dobb, Richard Goodwin published an influential paper, "A Growth Cycle" on the "class strugg...

 I am commenting on: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2021/12/16/controversial-artwork-twice-stolen-catholic-university?utm_source=Inside...

 Sighhhh... The possibility of a Russian invasion of Ukraine is now front page news, with little sign that Putin is going to move his massiv...

 The Environmental Protection Agency was founded during the presidency of Republican Richard Nixon, if perhaps with some lack of enthusiasm....

Not only could disposable time be regarded as a common-pool resource similar to other common-pool resources, but it could stand as the singl...

In "Foundations for Environmental Political Economy," John Dryzek explored the prospects of an environmentalist economic subject, ...

 Yes, Geoff Harcourt died yesterday at age 90, not sure what of. It seems I am writing too many of these recently, but his passing deserves ...

Two key features of Ostrom's analysis: the distinguishing of a spectrum of separable property rights rather than monolithic "owners...