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Paul Krugman on the Labor Market

…Mr. Wanniski wrote this piece a little more sensibly, I might argue that it was a nice discussion of real business cycle theory. But he is too eager to declare…

Kudlow Fails to Grasp the Keynes-Ramsey Rule

…full employment in the short-run, which was the subject of the Keynes’s General Theory a few years later. Note his own expression “spur consumer spending over time” as an illustration….

Conservatives & Moderates: Vote Kerry! Vote Gridlock!

…Institute’s William Niskanen points out that since WW II, spending growth has been slower under divided government, and wars have been less common. The Bush administration certainly fits Niskanen’s theory!…

I Want Six Weeks Vacation Too

…the future. It makes numerous assertions about economic necessity that are not supported by any evidence and contradict economic theory. For example, the article assets that the conditions that allowed…

…services (and I haven’t seen any direct evidence to support this theory, yet), then why did this just start happening 3 years ago? And why are the errors all in…

…or more education. We don’t really have an explanation for the pattern, though one theory is that people are going back to school — basically building up human capital while…

…sample: The use of mathematics in economics isn’t the sort of Theory we’re concerned with trying to stamp out; like the War on Drugs, the War on Theory isn’t meant…

Angry Bear Traffic Tops 100,000 Per Day That, of course, is only on a pro forma basis. Ezra Klein at NotGeniuses has an interesting theory: What I’m trying to get…