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…in libertarian fantasy. Libertarianism is the political philosophy of middle school boys and arrested development. It’s no way to run an industrialized nation in the 21st century. Trump embraces libertarianism…

…trend. And in the absence of any 12% decline in prices and wages, that shortfall in spending has to produce our current macroeconomic distress: there is not enough “money” to…

…Crisis (GFC) has been muted. Such, at least, can be fairly concluded by the nominees and final ballot for The Dynamite Prize in Economics, being held at the blog of…

…Consequences of Early-Life Rainfall. The paper that convinced me that Economics really is a good field in which to work. Marcellus Andrews, “Risk, Inequality, and the economics of disaster.” This…

I urge everyone to Go Read Garth. And then you will understand that Economics is The Science of Supporting the Status Quo and Stifling Innovation, as Steve Jobs (h/t Patrick)…

Remember the argument that we shouldn’t tax people because they’ll just move elsewhere? The British government appears not to believe it. Will the Geithner/Summers axis continue lying that “we can’t…

Ken Houghton follows up on his previous post. One of the few honest statements that came out of the Reagan Administration was in late 1982, when the Volcker policies were…

…a fabulous fiscal situation. So much for the Republican argument that reducing MTRs is the nirvana of tax/economic policy and raising MTRs its death knell. The e-mail was from “a…

…of modern economics”—that dates back to 2003(!) is all the more validated. John Quiggin should include all five parts as an Appendix to his forthcoming Zombie Economics book. Just sayin’….