…intervention does not involve getting in the middle of two moving targets. This is an economics blog, so, yes, you can bet that my answer will be economics-related. If you…

…club”, where careers and prestige are on the line. It’s the true sense of economics as a falsifiable science: some disproved and obsolete macro theory remains ingrained in the profession…

…Crisis (GFC) has been muted. Such, at least, can be fairly concluded by the nominees and final ballot for The Dynamite Prize in Economics, being held at the blog of…

…Consequences of Early-Life Rainfall. The paper that convinced me that Economics really is a good field in which to work. Marcellus Andrews, “Risk, Inequality, and the economics of disaster.” This…

Cross-posted at News N Economics blog, by Rebecca Here’s yet another historical record broken in 2009: “Only three insured institutions were chartered in the [third] quarter, the smallest quarterly total…

…of modern economics”—that dates back to 2003(!) is all the more validated. John Quiggin should include all five parts as an Appendix to his forthcoming Zombie Economics book. Just sayin’….

…at Reviving Economics gets it right, leaving hope that when we’re all dead, the next generation will know how to teach economics so that they’re not looked at as if…

…Economics, which occasionally seems like a self-parody of what would happen if you recited Economics 101 cant with an added, even-less-scientific, “evolutionary psychology” glean to it. However, they occasionally publish…

…The “principles of economics” that [N. Gregory] Mankiw champions, and the “More economic research (and teaching)” that [Doug] McTaggart et al are calling for, are the major reason why economists…

…long way toward minimizing the ultimate cost to taxpayers. Overpayment is good because we’ll get more back. And I thought only Health Economics had an upward-sloping demand curve. Why? The…