…a major problem. See, on some issues, there doesn’t seem to be much of a relationship between a governing philosophy and outcomes. For instance, stock market performance seems to be…

…throwing around a few labels like “left wing” and “strawman argument”) proceeded to make the unsupported blanket and absolute assertion that “American millionaires … know what it’s like to struggle…

by Linda Beale I just discovered (via Mark Thoma’s Economist’s View) an economics blog by Maxine Udall (self-styled “girl economist”–which just goes to show how much our image of economists…

…the high degree of mathematical formalism now so characteristic of economics. Yet the Nobel Prize Committee has done a great service to economics and the greater social-scientific community. When a…

…what policy makers are willing to accept as approximately true is theory, rather than hypotheses. Economics can falsify hypotheses left and right. Economics doesn’t seem to be able to falsify…

…have an impression that their neutrality policy amounts to a “I got mine, the rest of you can get beaten to a pulp for all I care” philosophy, but whether…

…my thoughts on economics and politics from a philosophy major, I note that Matthew Yglesias notes that it would be very hard for congress to say no to a tax…

…them — noting for example their lack of credentials. So what ? Yglesias has a BA in philosophy and an excellent understanding of economics. Klein is half my age and…

…decisions made depending on the management philosophy of a particular system. Usually we follow private companies…perhaps it is time to look at a significant portion of dollars spent in the…

…for an economic recovery. “Our plan is rooted in the philosophy that we cannot borrow and spend our way back to prosperity,” Boehner stated. The minority leader said the package…