by Sandwichman EconoSpeak Back in December, 2024, The Wall Street Journal carried a feature on an economics preprint research article that showed surprising findings. David Autor and Daron Acemoglu lauded…

David Zetland writes a well written nine page look at the limits of economics in at least the media and political level, and a look at the limits of what…

David Zetland writes a well written nine page look at the limits of economics in at least the media and political level, and a look at the limits of what…

…you can spout generic truisms without ever actually tying them to specifics. Much less to basic economics principles. Milbank’s column is so replete with unsupported and in fact completely unexplained…

…is based on a book called “Innovation Economics.” I’ve selected two excerpts from the column, that, I trust, together illustrate my point. The first, from early in the column, is:…

…pseudoscience of Economics, but that is more or less beside the point. Roger Farmer, cited in the post, left a long comment that Noah hoisted up the main page. Farmer…

by Rebecca Wilder Merry Christmas! Here’s a nice little model I discussed in 2007: The Economics of Christmas! Hope that you enjoy; I do. (This commentary was written in my…

…make growth and economics generally accessible to more Americans, especially younger Americans. The program will conduct and sponsor research on all aspects of economic growth, host conferences, as well as…

…publicly down Dewy Square* would be a good re-election move for the Obama Administration, and it comes back to basic economics. Specifically, Brad DeLong’s favorite monetary equation MV = PY…

…economics to its beleaguered claim to being a social science, as it were—it starts to be clearly why people believe economists are the problem, not the solution. It’s progress to…