…have updated the graph provided by Jeffrey Miron: Figure 6 Defense Spending as a Percentage of GDP     For both series – about half of this increase is from…

…will not match what preceded the negotiation of the JCPOA. As it is, Jeffrey Sachs (as reported by Juan Cole) has argued that if Trump tries to sanction European companies…

Does Greg Mankiw Know the History of U.S. Trade Policy? Greg offers us a nice speech by Saint Reagan. While Ronald Reagan preached free trade, Jeffrey Frankel notes that his…

…Jeffrey Frankel on Econbrowser where he brags about making six accurate predictions for 2018 while not reporting on some others he made that did not work out so well. I…

…labor economics. He is citing some work by Jeffrey Clemens, Lisa B. Kahn, and Jonathan Meer. Alas his blog post screwed up the link to this interesting paper: Compensation consists…

…on Econbrowser in response to a serious post by Jeffrey Frankel. I note that pgl has added useful comments on this matter in the other blogs. So it was 1990…

…thoughts turned to Jeffrey Epstein currently held without bail, because of course. Now he hasn’t been convicted yet, and I do support the 5th and 6th amendments, so I have…

…Intercept have labelled “eco-fascist.” The manifesto author’s “solution” to environmental degradation and resource depletion is to “get rid of enough people” so that “our way of life can become more…

…ambition to turn the corner. This is Jeffrey Sachs, for instance. Another is that the whole enterprise is misbegotten, a relic of colonialism that was always destined to fail. You…

Bicycles and Wine Tariffs Jeffrey Frankel has a must read blog over at Econbrowser: The “bicycle theory” used to be a metaphor for international trade policy. Just as standing still…