by Nancy O You’d think that the Supreme Court would have better things to do than write decisions constituting rehashes of old law. But, nooo! In its recent decision in…

…other words, if economic development has created so many new jobs, why haven’t wages risen? Of course, subsidies don’t account for the biggest part of inequality. Read Thomas Piketty for…

by Joseph Joyce Inequalities, National and Global The publication of Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century brought attention to an issue that has been slowly seeping into public discourse….

Well, my west of Boston town has had about 75 inches of snow in the last couple weeks. Any one have stories?? I believe Kenneth Thomas has moved to Boston…

…Reserve entitled “Faster GDP Growth during Recoveries Tends To Be Associated with Growth of Jobs in ‘Low-Paying’ Industries” (pdf), which was subsequently picked up by Prof. Mark Thomas at Economist’s…

…I heard that was a sample of 15 people with only one clear exception — Lars Hansen but I last heard in 1990). However, US academic economists tend to be…

…it’s necessary to raise taxes on corporations and rich individuals. Thomas Piketty, in his monumental Capital in the Twenty-First Century, suggests that the top marginal income tax rate should be…

…want to bother with a pdf the second hit http://www.poynter.org/news/mediawire/130485/claim-krugman-is-top-prognosticator-cal-thomas-is-the-worst/ I think that you really must note this scrap of data in an article about evaluating forecast accuracy in which…

…now. Updated 10/25 at 12:22 p.m. —- SECOND UPDATE: The New York Times’s Thomas Kaplan wrote on the Times’ political blog First Draft: Hillary Rodham Clinton has seized on remarks…

Yesterday a paper came out by John Williams and Thomas Laubach called, Measuring the Natural Rate of Interest Redux. They presented their model to determine the natural real rate of…