…and Ronny Jackson rejoined the White House. The Game Theory of Death has several possible modes. Scenarios over my next several posts which I plan to finish before that election….

A poem by Philip Appleman via Bill Moyers. I think that about covers it. But if it was not for you, try this one: The Ant…

…useful insight in macroeconomic theory which isn’t clearly stated in “The General Theory of Employment Interest and Money” ? By “useful” I mean that it has been used to predict…

…accompanied by other moves, wildly expansionary. I’m presuming he says “slightly expansionary” based on the theory Mark Thoma gives us in a November 17 post that Cameron was nice enough…

…“hope masquerading as theory.” See Kingsley et al,Flat Tax Proposals are Perpetual Fount of False Promises: View, Bloomberg.com (Oct. 24, 2011) (“This hope masquerading as a theory has dominated conservative…

by Mike Kimel Japan: The Post-WW2 Rise, the 1980s Peak, and the Decline – A Simple Theory Cross-posted at the Presimetrics blog. A lot has been written about the disaster…

Robert Waldmann Mark Thoma linked to a post at my personal blog about the history of economic thought 101, what did Keynes write in “The General Theory of Employment, Interest…

…this directly contradicts the theory they learned in introductory economics that labor demand is a downward sloping function of labor compensation. But remember, that theory is simply a massive over-simplification…

…wisdom (not to mention accepted economic theory) in America today. In general, when tax cuts occurred during or just after a recession, the resulting expansion has been slower than when…

…know this. Yet the idea that there is some general smoothness property in the mapping from assumptions to conclusions absolutely dominates economic theory. Yes I just said that economic theory…