by Bruce Webb Would that have been a fair headline for the following story: Richard Shelby Puts Hold On President Obama’s Nomineesl? Because the facts are pretty clear, Shelby placed…

…perhaps universal in themselves. If there is one concept in economic anthropology with a claim to universality, it is reciprocity. It was first used by Richard Thurnwald and taken up…

Richard Baldwin at VoxEU introduces a new book on “great trade collapse” before the WTO meeting occurring shortly. Re-posted with attribution: The Great Trade Collapse World trade experienced a sudden,…

…Richard Trumka (President, AFLCIO), and others as witnesses. Since unitary executive power has been the trend in the last few decades, each party sort of picking its turf to expand…

…(examples, David Card, Larry Katz, John Bound, John Van Reenen, Claudia Goldin, Bruce Meyer, Alan Krueger, Christina Romer, Joshua Angrist and Richard Freeman). However, they all use quite little mathematics…

…Krauthammer, Anne Applebaum, and Richard Cohen as if they were sane. But when your Ombudsman claims that your readers “typically demand coverage that is unfailingly neutral,” and cites as an…

…Check out our site.) Make sure you catch Presidents Obama’s response to the obligatory question framed as “punishing the rich”. The article interviews Professor Richard Wolff, economist, U of Massachusetts….

by cactus Megan McArdle responds to a post I wrote: So Obama doesn’t count because he’s not really a Democrat. But Bill Clinton was. But Richard Nixon–the chap who implemented…

…around the globe, including Olivier Blanchard, Janos Bogardi, Francois Bourguignon, Noam Chomsky, Richard Cooper, Evsey Gurvich, Thomas Hoenig, Robert Johnson, Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Wim Naude, Léonce Ndikumana, Eisuke Sakakibara, Luc…

…University of Texas professor James Galbraith, an Observer contributing writer, and former Majority Leader Richard Armey, chief instigator of the recent Astroturf “tea party” protests. Armey had begun his remarks…