Bruce Wilder had an excellent comment recently in the Crooked Timber thread on markets, economic rents, and the constraints on economic actors, excerpted by Dan here, and more with comments…

…Bartlett and Larry Summers on his tag team. (Update: Crooked timber picks up the lump theme. Here’s what Krugman wrote in his 2003 column, titled Lumps of Labor . Economists…

rdan Consider the Evidence and Crooked Timber April 16-18, 2009 post a series by Lane Kenworthy on income inequality. Our own Robert Waldmann has thoughts of his own as well….

Now I finally understood what Al Gore meant by “risky scheme” — Ted Barlow of Crooked Timber on the Ohio Coin Scandal: When I learned that Ohio Republicans had (cough)…

…would also include Yglesias, Pandagon, World ‘O Crap, Ruy Teixeira, Talking Points Memo, Brad DeLong, Fafblog, non-evil Roger Ailes, Crooked Timber, and other great blogs that I am unintentionally slighting….

Scientists for Science If you read CalPundit or Crooked Timber, you’ve probably already seen this, but it’s worth re-plugging. About a dozen scientists have created the latest group blog, The…

Math and Economics Economics and economists use a lot of math. Sometimes perhaps even gratuitously. Daniel Davies has a lengthly disquisition of the issue over at Crooked Timber. Here’s a…

…outcome. Crooked Timber wins by a mile. Most Humorous Blog: I don’t really read blogs that are just humor, all the time. But TBogg and Roger Ailes consistently crack me…

…and conservative. (Note that Matt Y. says that Harvard’s philosophy department is liberal. But also see Crooked Timber. Speaking of Matt, he also has a Plame piece up at TAP)….

I’ve been waiting for the Clinton campaign to respond to Trump’s “Crooked Hillary” meme by pointing out that fraud, including bank fraud, is generally considered crooked—i.e., illegal. To no avail,…