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…[skip] at the Journal of Monetary Economics, a must-publish venue for rising economists, Nuff read. I never knew the Journal of Monetary Economics was a must-publish venue for rising economists….

Brad DeLong asks about the top ten econ blogs by net news wire

…Fox’s Curious Capitalist http://time-blog.com/curious_capitalist/ Barry Ritholtz’s The Big Picture http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/ James Hamilton’s and Menzie Chinn’s Econbrowser http://www.econbrowser.com/ Angry Bear http://angrybear.blogspot.com/ WSJ Real Time Economics http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/ Paul Krugman http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/ Felix Salmon’s…

Soc Sec XVI: Democracy and Reaction

Well this is even less of an economics post than XV and in thinking on this the last couple days I realized I didn’t have a firm enough grip on…

Is Edward Prescott Overvaluing Federal Financing?

The following from the winner of the most recent Nobel Prize in economics may surprise many: STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – The U.S. current account and budget deficits, which some analysts see…

Importing Drugs: Bad Medicine / Bad Economics? The conservative argument against importing pharmaceuticals from Canada claims to be one part science and two parts economics with Sally Pipes (Pacific Research…

Nugent explains Reagan-Bush Economics I love it when rightwingers fight with each other. Tom Nugent reads and then objects to something from the WSJ oped pages: A recent Wall Street…

…a recipe for faster growth. Their plans were consistent with supply-side economics, which had dominated Republican policy for decades, since they targeted the economy’s long-run potential to grow… Wealthier people…

…the latest upward-skewed tax cuts: “Trickle Down Economics…Before we called it Trickle Down Economics, we called it Voodoo Economics, and before that we just called it Screwing the Oakies That…