Eating is a necessity and can be a great pleasure.  It also has a symbolic dimension in every culture.  In the long history of European civi...

The Biden administration has announced it is inaugurating a program to incorporate the value of natural resources and ecological services in...

  They are falling all around me They are falling all around me They are falling all around me The strongest leaves of my tree Every paper b...

I've just learned that Barkley Rosser, the mainstay of this blog, died yesterday.  I'd crossed paths with him in Madison, WI in the ...

 Mint the Coin! https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/debt-ceiling-hostage-update

My dissertation chair, Herb Gintis, died yesterday in Northampton, Mass.  We didn’t stay in touch after I graduated—our interests and perspe...

I don’t know how this will turn out, and maybe what I’m about to say will be disproved by events, but here goes: I think the Republicans fac...

 David G. Blanchflower of Dartmouth and Alex Bryson of University College in London have just published a paper at NBER 30759 "Wellbein...

 Merry Christmas, you all. So, the 117th Congress is done, and Nancy Pelosi is ending her historic run as Speaker of the House.  It passed m...

At the beginning of this year, I posted a response to Martin Hägglund's This Life: Secular faith and spiritual freedom . In October I l...

 Back in the day, I used to give talks on child labor.  I would always begin by saying that boycotts and shaming of corporations, while unde...

 This is about a paper I have just written for a special issue to appear in a journal I used to edit about the late economist, Peter Flascha...

Former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin died at age 96 on Nov. 30, curiously just as the worst outbreak of demonstrations to happen in China since...

 Will economic policy change much aa a result of the midterm elecrtions? After all, the GOP has taken the House of Representatives, if only ...

 Sorry you have not seen me here for awhile. My laptop on which I am able to post here was out of commission, but now has been fixed. Well, ...