Peter Dorman writes at Econospeak about economics insulated from the harsh light of day and evaluation of usefulness: The Embarrassment Known as the Value of a Statistical Life Some economic…

…want to compare economic growth across time periods, adjust for inflation or the size of the economy or both. 4. If you want to compare economic growth across countries, adjust…

…correlations between tax rates and economic growth are actually positive. That is to say, it isn’t only that we do not observe any relationship between tax rates and economic growth,…

…I got an e-mail today from another currently very not famous author plugging his book, and I found it to be an interesting concept. The book is called The Economics…

…enjoy the economic panacea that is a persistent debasement of the dollar, neither in the near- nor medium- term. The bottom chart illustrates the export share in overall economic GDP,…

…growth in general, as I noted last week, but also tend to precede economic meltdowns. All of which leads to a few possibilities: 1. Libertarians and economic conservatives are dead…

…group of educated had the highest economic enlightenment score. That group of educated had the highest economic enlightenment score. There is a bit of concern with this data piece considering…

by Tom aka Rusty Rustbelt RANDOM ECONOMIC OBSERVATIONS WHILE TRAVELING THE RUSTBELT Even while on vacation the CPA/consultant side of my brain is engaged sometimes (although my grandchildren engaged the…

…how to exacerbate, not alleviate, a financial crisis. Of course, it was a consequence of taking stupid and economically ruinous advice from the International Monetary Fund, which is to economic…

…But whether or not constitutional reform leads to productive microeconomic reform is a serious question, in my view. One thing is for certain: if constitutional reform supplants economic reform over…