…to join us at the local pub. After all, drinking a few beers with her and chatting economics would provide us more understanding of economics than listening to Professor Nugent….

by Linda Beale More Thinking on Ethics : How about Ethics and Economics A few days ago, I broached a question about “The Countermajoritarian Difficulty and Congressional Ethics“. We seem…

…influence of Joan Robinson today is on Post Keynesian economics, or post-Keynesian economics, with her preferring this latter spelling, the British version. Indeed, although I cannot prove it, I have…

Aristotle did. As Philip Kreager reminded me: Historians of economics have for some time treated his [Aristotle’s] writings as formative, even though relevant passages in the Politics and Ethics amount…

Review of Behavioral Economics (ROBE) Website Goes Live Amazingly enough, today on my 65th birthday, the website of the new journal that I am Editor-in-Chief of, the Review of Behavioral…

by Mike Kimel I recently got an e-mail from a fellow blogger asking me to link a list that blogger made of “top X” economics blogs. (And no, I will…

Our colleague PGL offers this take at Econospeak on the new deal this week: Supply-side Economics: Tea Party Style Andrew Leonard covers the opposition to the Obama-McConnell tax deal coming…

…‘Trade’. But the ultimate result of having the merchant class being elevated to the pinnacle of society and its chosen norms being established as natural ‘Laws of Economics’ to some…

…actually got worse,” said Francesco Daveri, an economics professor at the University of Parma. Odds of a turnaround seem remote. Italy’s productivity has been slipping since 2000 and for experts…

Via Mark Thoma, Antonio Fatas has a really excellent post on what’s wrong with economics education. It is too good to excerpt (and besides Thoma does that better than I…