…Robert Waldmann: …born the day after Kennedy was elected (November 9 1960). I have a PhD in economics (Harvard 1989) and teach economics at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”….

…on economic students at the Manchester University, England… Economics students and the free market syllabus Chang, ( Ha-Joon Chang, who teaches economics at Cambridge University) who is a reader in…

…economics had not been an important contributor to policy. Passage of the Affordable Care Act offers an opportunity to reassess this question. We find that the evolution of health economics…

…Sowell published this book in 2003/2008. I found it more interesting to read than his Basic Economics (2005) because here he focusses on a few big topics. Here are some excerpts: Politics vs Economics…

…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…

Nobel Prizes in Economics, Awarded and Withheld Most of the commentary today on the decision to award Nobel prizes in economics to William Nordhaus and Paul Romer has focused on…

by robertdfeinman Non-Adiabatic Economics by robertdfeinman, continuing the discussion of economics as a science from here and here. Most economic theories assume that the system under consideration is stable or…

…writing for Angry Bear. Recent comments got me thinking about it again. In thinking about the economics of slavery, I’m considering slavery and serfdom to be economic near-equivalents. Of course,…

…it…. MONEY. “Monetarism is a school of economic thought concerning the determination of national income and monetary economics. It focuses on the supply of money in an economy as the…

…is a bigotry against the term Supply-Side Economics. That is the only way to explain it. The prejudices of those who for decades have believed what is best for society…