Rah Rah Economics Greg Mankiw read Trumponics by Art Laffer and Stephen Moore so we don’t have to: When economists write, they can decide among three possible voices to convey…

Steve Roth, publisher of Evonomics and at Angry Bear, sends this note and thematic list: Economics Doesn’t Have to Be Amoral The complexity economist Eric Beinhocker writes “economics has painted…

…Keynesian economics in his State of the Union address next week, as long as he addresses, at length, issues of dramatically unequal income and wealth distribution and access to the…

​For most, economics is about earning enough to be able to buy the requisite goods and services — to make ends meet.  Having a little left over for that rainy…

From David Zetland (Aguanomics) comes this note… Marginal Revolution University [free, online] has released 14 lessons (2-7 min, each) on water economics as part of its development economics unit. They…

…This book is making me wonder if we’re asking the wrong question. Maybe it’s not “Is Economics a Science,” but rather “Is Economics a Discipline.” More to come on this….

…shirt economics, because the obvious fiscal response is constrained via self-imposed rules inherent in the rules governing the European Monetary Union. These rules are regarded, almost to a man, as…

…though people who look at asset prices knew it was rejected by their data. The terrible power of elegant theories in economics is that they maintain their power even once…

…capital requirements. Anyway, that’s my argument. Hope it helps. Best, Economics of Contempt http://economicsofcontempt.blogspot.com/ * I am not making a sexist assumption that he is a guy. He had a…

David Brooks has noticed the increasing popularity of behavioral economics. He argues that it would be a mistake to allow the recognition that people aren’t perfectly rational to convince us…