…The PRC petition is supported by a report written for UPS by Dr. Kevin Neels a principal of the Brattle Group, an economics consulting firm. As his bio says, Dr….

We died at Cold Harbor June 1864, an officer of the Iron Brigade. UW had his letters and I was allowed to read them. They were given to me, neatly…

…years old. DK won the economics Nobel in 2002, based (mostly) on joint work. The story of their intellectual relationship has a lot to do with their different personalities: AT…

If it bleeds, it leads. CNN has a piece about Ramon Rivera, who randomly stabbed three people in NYC. He was mentally ill, in and out of Rikers and mental…

Perhaps, I am wrong? We have Trump and others deciding the livelihood of a nation’s population who have obviously walked a different path to success than those they are making…

The Trump Administration is weaponizing tax-exempt status to punish its political enemies and enforce viewpoint discrimination. It’s illegal, but can it work? Here’s Josh Marshall over at TPM: “It seems…

…the justifications fail. And this is true too of military leaders from other countries whom we’ve trained, as at the Pentagon’s infamous School of the Americas (now the Western Hemisphere…

This is the third post of a series of posts highlighting parts of the paper by David Zetland Wageningen UR – Environmental Economics and Natural Resources Group; PERC – Property…

…economics, or not–depending, probably, on whether the Koch Brothers pick up the phone and disabuse Ryan of his belief that Keynesian economics doesn’t work. Before Wall Street does. Here’s what…

…time to pay more attention as ‘insourcing’ gains traction as a buzz word, Paul Krugman calls for a new look at the economics of robotics and economics : Catherine Rampell…