Many thanks to William Polley for a thoughtful post on the employment-population ratio. He follows up on my critique of the unemployment ratio – where its decline over the past…

For an interesting comment on my recent dialogue with David Altig over Charles Krauthammer’s view that the Social Security Trust Fund’s assets are worthless piece of paper, see William Polley’s…

…time. If we have learned that Paul Volcker was a more determined enemy of inflation than Arthur Burns and G. William Miller. We must expect that economic agents learned this…

…Jason Delisle and William Holt did an opinion piece on the Washington Post and a similar argument by Jason Delisle has popped up over at the Washington Monthly. Jason has…

…Rubio 9 percent, Jeb Bush 5 percent), Fiorina 4 percent, and the other four tied at 2 percent. In the comments thread to my post from yesterday, AB reader William…

John Graunt’s Natural and Political Observations on the Bills of Mortality (1662) is acknowledged as the inaugural text of “political arithmetick.” Graunt is ranked along with William Petty, Charles Davenant…

…the Higgins memo that I have documented here, here and here. Heer credits William S. Lind as the major popularizer of the myth, as have I in my blog posts….

…power back to the workers where it belongs.” — Mark Paul, William Darity, Jr., and Darrick Hamilton, “Support for workers’ right to organize and collectively bargaining would, of course, be…

…carbon, one that makes as few economic demands as possible. Nordhaus, William. 1992. An Optimal Transition Path for Controlling Greenhouse Gases. Science. Nov. 20. 258(5086): 1315-1319. Nordhaus, William. 2017. Revisiting…