…democracy and peace?” | World Economics Association, Peter Söderbaum, Does the economics taught in universities play a positive role in strengthening democracy or is the idea rather for economists to…

An economy (noun) is a social entity’s aggregate activity of producing, distributing, and consuming goods and services. Economics (noun) is the study of economies. The various aspects, attributes, and metrics…

Modeling the numbers on bottom-up and middle-out economics. How Redistribution Makes Us All Richer, Wealth Economics, Steve Roth You hear a lot about bottom-up and middle-out economics these days, as…

…wrong lesson circulating that must be nipped in the bud. Here is an example from Betsey Stevenson, a professor of economics who served in the Obama Administration: I’m not taking…

…tax paying population. I am sure our new president will carry on with the tradition of favoring the one-percenters. To Put Trickle-down Economics to Rest, We Need a New Tax…

Noah Smith’s The End of Econ Blogging’s Golden Age, Bloomberg Opinion. December 17, 2019. “If someone asked you to name the greatest economics blogger of all time, you might name…

Nick Rowe was looking for the role of money in the Heuristic Macro Model, which is often used to introduce students to Trade economics. The problem he discovered is that…

…in its last days; something colonizers and would-be colonizers were strongly opposed to. The economics of the Industrial Age demanded ever more raw materials, ever more markets for its products….

Is investment spending “spending,” or isn’t it? Steve Roth (@ Wealth Economics) J.M. Keynes’ brief Preface to the French edition of General Theory is sometimes held up as the most concise, cogent, and coherent…

…opinion, meant, first and foremost, Uwe Reinhardt, the James Madison Professor of Political Economy at Princeton’s Economics and Public Affairs departments. I sort of had this vision of Reinhardt and…