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America’s governance mind: FUBAR

…drew “an undesirable element”; the group had played each year on the Mall on the Fourth of July from 1976 to 1981. But, unlike Bush’s Metal of Freedom winners, Watt’s…

Spare Us From the Invisible Hand

…Financial Times and assorted media journalists loved the “invisible hand”, Nobel Prize winners sang it praises, and the epigones believed in its miraculous powers with the passionate certainties of Jihadists….

Meet the Senate Finance Committee

…from an outright win, and one would think at a minimum he can hold Schumer and Stabenow, each of whom’s states look to be big winners from near universal health…

DeLong, Thoma, Rodrik et al. Do Good

To often, we talk about models as if they are reality, instead of reflecting a reality that was approximated. At least forty economists, including at least three ‘Nobel’ Prize winners,…

Why Conservatives Hate Social Security

…coverage) is Socialism and/or two that Social Security (and Universal Health Care) if perceived to be successful are political winners for the Democrats for possibly decades to come. In practice…

Privatization Proponents Are Feeling Lonely

…list of 450 people who support some version of privatization. While it is true that they list five Noble Prize winners, they also list more names of folks who I…

The Nobel Prize in Economics

This year’s winners are Kydland and Prescott. Atrios and Stirling Newberry provide nice summaries for non-economists of some of their principal insights. Let me just add two quick thoughts. First,…

…around. If you’re not yet convinced, note that from the parenthetic it’s clear that not one of the four former winners was able to improve upon their prior performance and,…

…update when the voting opens. And speaking of contests, MoveOn has announced the winners of the Bush in Thirty Seconds contest, and my favorite ad, Child’s Play (warning: sound), won….