…include the last change in 2006 since it was the rate for the first 8.5 months of 2007): If you make money easier to get, standard theory says that people…

…embraced by the US Marine Corps), and then how he briefed the Secretary of Defense on his theory just before Desert Storm, and how that theory was successfully applied to…

…Currently at almost 22%, up from 8.8%. We have been living under the theory that high tax rates (personal or otherwise) have harmed the entrepreneurial spirit and thus harmed growth….

…side, the bond-market/interest-rate/gold-also crowd on the other. Meanwhile, each month the consumer price index comes out with a relatively low reading. If the accuracy of a theory is demonstrated by…

…a way, Kash might be happy to seem Powell rejecting a single theory of economic growth, but as I read Powell’s paper, he attributes Ireland’s growth to only two alleged…

…for schools to teach that Newton’s theory of gravity is “only a theory” – in fact, just one of many equally-likely theories – and that the theory of gravity is…

…net. Is there any economic theory or evidence that suggests that a country does better without a social safety net? No. In fact, there is a sizeable body of theory…

…current benefits. In honor of his amazing stupidity, can we call this specific topic the “Luskin Equivalency Theory”? Of course, Barro’s Ricardian Equivalence theory should not be confused with Luskin’s….

Business Week reads the latest from Paul Samuelson on trade theory and then writes Shaking Up Trade Theory. Brad DeLong objects to this paragraph: But if white-collar offshoring swells enough,…

Gallup recently asked America about evolution. Here’s one question: “Just your opinion, do you think that Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution is: a scientific theory that has been well-supported by…