…of a colonialist feather, along with Thomas Cree, Pierre Cahuc and ‎André Zylberberg. Sessions’s economics is indeed terrible… as is the economics that opposes to it a fraudulent fallacy claim….

Here’s the abstract of a discussion paper from the IZA Institute of Labor Economics by Felix Bransch and Michael Kvasnicka: Using data on articles published in the top-five economic journals…

…Unlearning Economics — who I, at least, don’t consider to be an econocrank, he’s far better-versed than I am, though Nick might.) I took him up on the challenge, and…

…fact that voting away from conservative economics has not lead us away from conservative economics since Reagan. Regardless of the party of the president or the majority of congress, the…

Construction has been one of the more encouraging sectors, adding jobs each of the last four months. The hiring there was probably because of a combination of rebuilding from Hurricane…

…economics of what should be, but most economists practice what’s called “positive economics,” i.e., the economics of what is. These positive economists may carry out research describing the connection between…

Perhaps macroeconomic professors should assign the latest from Cesar Conda & Ernest S. Christian (C&C) as reading material with an attached essay question designed to let their students find the…

I had a friend who worked as a teacher in China. She made about $600 per month there 10 years ago. She said there was one question that the Chinese…

From Center for Economic and Policy Development comes this framing….Global Warming and the Which Way Is Up Problem in Economic Print It is painful to read Eduardo Porter’s column on…

…distinction was between the study of “what is” and “what ought to be.” The second distinction was between “economic science” (or “economics”) and “political economy.” Economic science presumably distinguished itself…